High-performance computing (HPC) facilities
Last updated: 11th October 2011
List of the computing ressources available for the CP3 members.
Resources in CP3
- CMS/LHC Tier 2 - Ingrid
Connected to the WLCG Grid - Cosmo cluster
- 104 cores: 13x2x4 AMD Opteron 16 GB RAM / node
- Storage: 9.2 TB (parallel fs gluster) multiplexed over stripped Gbit ethernet across the nodes
- Access and detailed specifications
- Madgraph cluster
- 592 cores: (8x2x2 - 2.6 GHz 4GB RAM / node) + (6x2x4 - 2.5 GHz 16GB RAM / node) + (32x2x8 - 2.3 GHz 32GB RAM / node)
- Online interface
- Sister clusters at UIUC (USA) and Roma2 Tor Vergata
- NA62 cluster
- 100 cores
- Mass storage: 200 TB.
Resources at UCLouvain
CP3 members have also access to the UCLouvain's clusters managed by the CISM.
- HMEM cluster
- 3.7TB of RAM distributed across 12 nodes of 48 cores each (including 2 machines with 512GB RAM)
- Interconnected through Infiniband
- Green cluster
- 952 cores: 119x2x4 Xeon 2.5 GHz 16 and 32 GB RAM / node
- Mass storage: 11 TB
- Lemaître cluster
- 128x2x1 AMD Opteron 2.56GHz 4GB RAM /node, Infiniband interconnection
- 12x2x4 Xeon Nehalem 2.27 GHz 24 GB RAM / node, Infiniband interconnection
- several 32, 64 and 128 GB RAM machines
- BeGrid
- Currently, more than 1000 cores distributed over several belgian universities
External resources
UCLouvain members have access to- the clusters funded by the CECI across the universities of the Communauté française de Belgique
- WLCG grid distributed across more than 140 computer centres. For CMS:
- 25 000 cores
- 25 000TB of disk storage and 35 000 TB of tape storage