The IFCA Computing infrastructure consists of a total of four general services nodes, based on Intel x86 architecture, interconnected into a 10Gb network offering multiple options and processing architectures.

AI/machine learning

It has 24 computing nodes and offers a total of 1,640 CPU cores, 2,600 Gb of central memory and 40 NVIDIA GV100GLGP card 32Gb (with Infiniband EDR 100Gbps), 11 NVIDIA 1080Ti card and 1 NVIA TitanX card.

Cloud

It has 158 computing nodes and offers a total of 4,734 CPU cores with 8,256 Gb of RAM in diferent brands machines.

HPC (Altamira node)

It has 158 computing nodes and offers a total of 5,056 CPU cores with 10,112 Gb of central memory, interconnected into a single Infiniband FDR10 network (40Gbps)

Storage

In addition, the system offers 1,6 Pb storage space through IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS), 400Tb storage space through Ceph File System (CEPH) and the infrastructure is complete with an IBM TS3500 library of maximum storage capacity of about 6 Pb.

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Request a new user to get access to the IFCA Advanced Computing Services

Important: Users must make a request by themselves, as they must accept the specific policies.

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Request a Project

To apply for a dedicated project in the IFCA Advanced Computing Service you must provide the following information:

1. Project information and basic metadata: name of the project, a brief description and the estimated time to finish the project

2. The email and name of the responsible of the project

3. List of participants of the project including their emails and names

4. An estimation of the resources needed in terms of amount of hours of CPU, number of servers and storage.

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