Deucalion
Deucalion is Portugal's new EuroHPC green supercomputer, ranked with position #80 in energy efficiency of the Arm partition and #219 in processing speed on the TOP500 of May 2024, which was announced at ISC 2024.
Deucalion has a peak performance of 10 Petaflops thanks to its 2 clusters with three partitions. The ARM cluster has 1632 nodes with Fujitsu ARM A64FX processors, and the X86 cluster 500 nodes with AMD EPYC processors plus, and an accelerated partition with 33 nodes, each with NVidia Ampere GPUs. The storage has a total of 10.6 PB Parallel File System partition with a 430 TB High-speed NVMe.
Deucalion will offer services for traditional HPC computation, AI and Big Data/HPDA analytics.
MACC wants to be part of the education of the next researchers and experts on advanced computing in the world. For that, MACC offers a diversity of training sessions and courses.
Bob
Bob was composed of 600 compute nodes and 9600 cores installed in a state-of-the-art datacenter facility located in Riba de Ave fully powered by sustainable energy sources.
Each Bob node had: two Intel 8-core “Sandy Bridge” generation Xeon processors at 2.7Ghz with 32GB of RAM and a shared storage with 1,5 PB. Nodes were integrated with a Mellanox FDR 56 Gb/s InfiniBand network.
BOB had a capacity of 244 terabytes, 1 petaFLOP of compute performance, and 1 petabyte of storage capacity, which increased the national computing capacity tenfold.
Bob was part of the former Stampede supercomputer of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
BOB in numbers
112 projects
309 users
33,904,713 CPU Hours
Visualization Lab
A state-of-the-art facility where staff explores large-scale visual analysis through the study of visualization and interactive displays. Vislab is a research hub for tiled display software development and visualization consulting. The laboratory also offers connectivity to other similar centers across Portugal and collaborative environments to foster collaborative research among institutions.
The main goal of this facility is to support the world-class research being conducted across the country and even beyond our borders. In addition, the Vislab has users from several fields of science, and our consulting team can help them gather more information and explore how the Vislab has enabled discoveries.
The Vislab offers faculty, staff, and students opportunities to use visualization, interaction, and computational resources to explore and present data. We invite you to explore the facility and envision how this interactive, high-performance visualization space can transform your research and events.
For more information and to explore how the VisLab has enabled discoveries, please contact vislab@support.macc.fccn.pt.