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= 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. 

IFCA also offers support for large and performant storage, as well as advanced network support. 

== ALTAMIRA SUPERCOMPUTING NODE AT UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA ==

The supercomputing node at the University of Cantabria is named ALTAMIRA. 
Its use is offered as part of the Santander Supercomputing Services within the Scientific-Technical Services  at University of Cantabria (see http://www.unican.es/WebUC/Unidades/Investigacion/scti/ssc/ )

The current system includes:

A cluster with 158 servers, each one with 2 Intel Xeon SB processors, for a total of more than 2500 cores, interconnected with Infiniband, with a power over 50 Tflops.
A subcluster with 5 GPU servers, each one with 2 nVidia Tesla GPUs.
Another cluster offering IBM Power7 cpus, with more than 4 Tflops

== HOW TO USE THE SUPERCOMPUTING NODE ==

The User Guide is available here