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= Supercomputing framework at IFCA =

Welcome to the support pages on supercomputing at IFCA.

Please, send any question to res_support@ifca.unican.es 


== 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/ )

== Why supercomputing at IFCA ==

Supercomputing is more specific than High Performance Computing.

IFCA entered the supercomputing field with the installation of the ALTAMIRA node of the Spanish Supercomputing Network (Red Española de Supercomputacion = RES) coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

You can find the information about the RES here, and about ALTAMIRA here