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MareNostrum5

At Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) manages the Spanish Supercomputing Network and it is a hosting member of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). It hosts MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. It has a total workforce of more than 600 R&D experts and professionals, and its research focuses on four fields: Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computer Applications in Science and Engineering. BSC was established in 2005 aiming at fostering High Performance Computing in Spain and Europe as an essential tool for international competitiveness in science and engineering.

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Machine information

HPC Resources

 

Machine name MareNostrum 5 GPP
% of the machine provided to RES 80% of the Spanish capacity
Peak performance 45.5 PFlops/s
Main memory 1775.25 TB
Number of nodes and cores

6 480 nodes (725,760 cores)

Main nodes characteristics

RAM: 6 192x256 GB, 216x1024 GB, 72x160 GB
Storage: 960 GB NVMe/node

Type of CPU

6 408 nodes: 2x Intel Shappire Rapids 8480+ 56 cores 2GHz
72 nodes: 2x Intel Shappire Rapids 03H-LC 56 cores 1.7GHz

GFlops/node

25 800 GFlop/s per node

Disk storage 652.8 PB shared with the rest of the partitions
Interconnection network Infiniband NDR200
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Server

 

Machine name MareNostrum 5 ACC
% of the machine provided to RES 80% of the Spanish capacity
Peak performance 260 PFlops/s
Main memory 840 TB
Number of nodes and cores

1 120 nodes (89 600 cores + GPU)

Main nodes characteristics

RAM: 512 GB/nodo (CPU) + 256 GB/nodo (GPU)
Storage: 480 GB NVMe/nodo

Type of CPU and GPU

2x Intel Shappire Rapids 8460Y+ 40 cores 2.3GHz
4x NVIDIA Hopper 64 GB HBM

GFlops/node

534 000 GFlop/s per node

Disk storage 652.8 PB shared with the rest of partitions
Interconnection network Infiniband NDR200
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Server

 

Machine name MareNostrum 5 Next Generation (coming soon)

 

Data projects Resources

Core Features: Archival projects and Data storage, regardless of discipline

Available storage space (TB)

 4000 TB

Standard protocol for external access

 ssh

Standard data transfer protocol

 Yes

High speed network connection RedIRIS/autonomous networks

 10 Gbps

Backup protocol

 Yes

Security system

 Yes (Segmented network and firewalls)

Monitorization system

 Yes: Intrusion monitoring system in the internal network, accessible from the outside via VPN

Personnel assigned to support users who access the center through the network

 0.5 FTE Data Manager, 0.5 FTE Data Engineer, 0.5 technical support

Optional characteristics: data storage and exploration projects (basic exploitation), generic and/or specific by subject area

Federated access protocol (EduGAIN, SIR, …)

 Yes

Optimized transfer system for large volumes of data

 Yes

Treatment of personal data and ethics committee

 Yes

Data management policy

 Yes (Internal document)

Additional features: More specific exploitation projects, with advanced tools, and/or depending on the subject area

Data services for scientific projects (maintained by the node)

BSC is one of EUDAT´s service providers, and can facilitate the integration of these services in data projects: B2DROP-B2SAFE + PIDs

 

Support and consulting service for other nodes of the data network

 Yes, data notes coordinator. 

 

Support team / Contact

 

The Support Team, which is part of the BSC-CNS Operations Department, is responsible for direct user support providing detailed knowledge of programming models, libraries, performance tools and applications, and is also responsible for management of the BSC-CNS and RES websites, and the management and support of 3D visualisation equipment.

Visit the Support Knowledge Centre to access the User's Guides and accurate technical documentation of the Supercomputing Facilities hosted at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

 

Contact Computational Resources: support@bsc.es

Contact  Data resources: datamanagement@bsc.es