Supercomputing at IFCA
Welcome to the support pages on supercomputing at IFCA.
Please, send any question to res_support@ifca.unican.es
Why supercomputing at IFCA
IFCA entered the supercomputing field with the installation in 2007 of the ALTAMIRA node of the University of Cantabria within the Spanish Supercomputing Network (Red Española de Supercomputacion = RES) coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The node was installed at IFCA datacenter room, and supported by IFCA team in a joint effort with ATC group.
The ALTAMIRA node was upgraded in June 2012 with the installation of a new cluster at IFCA datacenter room.
ALTAMIRA SUPERCOMPUTING NODE AT UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA
The supercomputing node at the University of Cantabria is named ALTAMIRA.
The current hardware includes 158 servers, each one offering 16 cores using 2 Intel Xeon SB processors, interconnected with Infiniband, with a total power of more than 50 Tflops. Additionally 5 GPU servers are also available, each one with 2 Tesla GPUs. Also 11 blade servers with Power7 are installed.
These services are offered as Santander Supercomputing Services within the Scientific-Technical Services at University of Cantabria (see http://www.unican.es/WebUC/Unidades/Investigacion/scti/ssc/ )