Xula y Turgalium - CIEMAT
The Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT) is part of the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) and other Latin American HPC networks such as RICAP/SCALAC. It manages the Xula (Madrid) and Turgalium (Trujillo) supercomputers. CIEMAT employs over 1200 experts and professionals in R&D, focusing its research in five main areas: energy, environment, technology, basic research, and health. Established in 1951, CIEMAT has been hosting supercomputing infrastructures since 1959, making it a pioneer centre in Spain.
HPC resources
Machine name | Xula |
% of the machine destined to RES | 50% |
Peak performance | 464.5 TFlop/s |
Main memory | 13.824 TB |
Number of nodes and cores | 144 nodes (6 912 cores) |
Main nodes characteristics | 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 2.1 GHz and 96GB of RAM |
CPU type | Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 2.1 GHz |
GFlop/s per node | 3 226 GFlop/s per node |
Disk storage | 1 PB Lustre |
Interconnection network | OmniPath 100 Gbps |
Operating System | Rocky 8 |
Machine name | Turgalium |
% of the machine destined to RES | 50% |
Peak performance | 464.5 TFlop/s |
Main memory | 13.824 TB |
Number of nodes and cores | 144 nodes (6 912 cores) |
Main nodes characteristics | 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 2.1 GHz and 96GB of RAM |
CPU type | Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 2.1 GHz |
GFlop/s per node | 3 226 GFlop/s per node |
Disk storage | 1 PB Lustre |
Interconnection network | OmniPath 100 Gbps |
Operating System | Rocky 8 |
Support team
The support team, which is part of the ICT Division of CIEMAT (Xula) and the Extremaduran Center for Advanced Technologies (CETA-CIEMAT, Turgalium), is responsible for providing technical support to users. They offer expert knowledge in programming models, libraries, performance tools, and applications.
If you need CIEMAT's support you can directly contact them via res_support@ciemat.es for inquiries regarding Xula, and via res_support@ceta-ciemat.es for inquiries regarding Turgalium.