Altamira - UC

Machine name Altamira
Node location Universidad de Cantabria, Santander
Available services HPC
Support res_support@ifca.unican.es
More info https://web.unican.es/unidades/scti/servicio-santander-de-supercomputacion/presentacion

Altamira - UC

Only HPC
 April 29, 2024

Altamira is an HPC cluster belonging to the RES (Spanish Supercomputing Network) and is located at the Universidad de Cantabria, within the building of the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA).

Altamira comprises 360 IBM dx blades and since 2007 has provided over 50 million hours of computing, offering resources to various research projects with applications ranging from astronomy and cosmology to life sciences.

HPC resources

Machine name

Altamira

% of the machine destined to RES

26%

Peak performance

105 TFlop/s

Main memory

9.88 TB

Number of nodes and cores

158 nodes (2 528 cores)

Main nodes characteristics

IBM dx360 nodes: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 GHz and 64 GB of RAM

CPU type

Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 GHz

GFlop/s per node

332.8 GFlop/s per node

Disk storage

Shared storage based in GFPS with a total capacity of 2 PB

Interconnection network

Infiniband FDR and Internet connection via RedIris Nova of 1 Gbps

Operating System

Scientific Linux 6.4

Support team

The IFCA from Universidad de Cantabria offers support to Altamira users via e-mail, from Monday to Friday from 9h to 17h. If you need UC's support, contact via res_support@ifca.unican.es if you are a RES user, or via ssc@unican.es if you are a user directly through UC itself.