The HPAC Platform currently provides supercomputers at four HPC centres for the HBP community.
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The following supercomputers are integrated into the HPAC Platform. UNICORE is available and configured on these systems, which are also integrated into the HPAC Platform’s Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure.
JUWELS
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
- 122,448 CPU cores
- 2271 standard compute nodes, 240 large memory compute nodes, 48 accelerated compute nodes, 4 visualisation nodes and 12 login nodes
- 10.4 (CPU) + 1.6 (GPU) Petaflop per second peak performance
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JURECA
- T-Platforms V-Class architecture
- 1872 nodes and 12 visualization nodes (with 2 NVIDIA K40 GPUs per node)
- 45,216 CPU cores in total
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Piz Daint
- Cray XC30
- 28 cabinets with 5,272 nodes and 42,176 cores in total (with 1 NVIDIA K20 GPU per node)
- 7.787 PFlops
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MareNostrum 4
- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
- Lenovo SD530 compute cluster
- 3,456 nodes with 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 24C at 2.1 GHz each
- 11.15 PFlops
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MARCONI
- Cineca, Italy
- Intel OmniPath Cluster
- Current 2 PFlops
- Will be upgraded twice over the next years
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Pico
- Cineca, Italy
- Linux Infiniband Cluster
- 74 nodes with in total 1080 cores
- Compute nodes, viz nodes, big memory nodes
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Also the two pilot systems developed in a Pre-Commercial Procurement during the HBP Ramp-up Phase were integrated into the HPAC Platform:
JULIA [out of production]
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich
- KNL-based compute nodes
- Developed by Cray
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JURON [end of production: end of Nov. 2020]
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich
- KNL-based POWER8′ + P100 interconnected via NVLink
- Developed by a consortium of IBM and NVIDIA
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