News archive - Inauguration of new "High-Performance Computing" (HPC) cluster in Skopje in September
As a result of the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science to invest 60m EUR in new research and scientific laboratories, a new HPC cluster (1.1 M EUR) will be inaugurated during September 2011.
The HPC cluster, which is in the phase of setup and installation, is manufactured by HP. It consists of 1008 CPU cores with Hyperthreading, based on Intel Xeon L5640 low power processors, with 2GB RAM per core.
The interconnectivity is realized using QDR Infiniband technology, delivering nonblocking communication using fat tree. SAS based storage with total of 30TB storage space is connected to the cluster’s management nodes. The whole system is enclosed with integrated chassis cooling system, delivering large number of CPU cores on a very small footprint. The Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Ss Cyril and Methodius in Skopje will manage this HPC installation, which will be used by researchers throughout the country. It will also be used regionally, in the framework of the HP-SEE project and will be part of the MARGI grid infrastructure.
Source: HP-SEE Newsletter, Issue 2
- European Union (EU 27)
- SEE
Entry created by Ines Marinkovic on September 1, 2011
Modified on September 1, 2011
