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 | 45% |
Peak performance | 135 TFlop/s |
Main memory | 8.25 TB |
Number of nodes and cores | 44 nodes (1 760 cores) |
Main nodes characteristics | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6148 2.4 GHz and 192 GB of RAM |
CPU type | Intel Xeon Gold 6148 2.4 GHz |
GFlop/s per node | 3 072 GFlop/s per node |
Disk storage | 1.34 PB |
Interconnection network | Infiniband EDR100 |
Operating System | CentOS 7.6 |
Machine name | Turgalium |
% of the machine destined to RES | 45% |
Peak performance | 143 TFlop/s |
Main memory | 7.5 TB |
Number of nodes and cores | 40 nodes (1 440 cores) |
Main nodes characteristics | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6254 3.1 GHz and 192 GB of RAM |
CPU type | Intel Xeon Gold 6254 3.1 GHz |
GFlop/s per node | 3 571 GFlop/s per node |
Disk storage | 4.84 PB |
Interconnection network | Infiniband EDR100 |
Operating System | CentOS 7.8 |
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.