This new equipment will allow different massive data processing projects in areas such as biodiversity studies, personalized medicine, particle physics or climate change
June 4, 2021
This new equipment will allow to tackle different massive data processing projects in areas such as biodiversity studies, remote sensing and satellite image processing, personalized medicine and medical imaging, astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, computer security or climate change in which the IFCA is involved through its different groups and research lines. It will also allow the IFCA to participate in relevant computing initiatives at national and European level, improving its visibility and competitiveness, by having a new highly specialized computing infrastructure in line with the current state of the art and technique.
"This new infrastructure, unique in the region, consists of an advanced computing cluster composed of computational nodes"
This new infrastructure, unique in the region, consists of an advanced computing cluster composed of compute nodes. It contains a high number of novel graphics processing units (GPUs) and a high amount of RAM, a high-performance distributed and hyper-converged storage system, as well as a low-latency interconnection system (Infiniband) that allows running workloads in a distributed and parallel manner. Specifically, this new acquisition consists of 10 high-performance servers with a total of 480 innovative CPUs, 80 NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs, 3.75 TB of RAM and 380 Terabytes (TB) of data storage in total. This system joins the existing cluster of 40 NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs to form a powerful infrastructure focused on artificial intelligence open to research and innovation. All this is housed in the IFCA data processing center, which has more than 11,000 cores and 3 PB of high-performance storage, hosting the UC's Altamira supercomputer, as well as IFCA's cloud computing and scientific computing infrastructure.
