{"id":16824,"date":"2024-03-11T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/?page_id=16824"},"modified":"2024-07-18T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T07:10:16","slug":"high-performance-computing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/high-performance-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"High Performance Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrapper  \" style=\"\" >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row \"><div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12\"><div class='blox_element tt_text_content  '>\n<p>GRNET SA develops and operates the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpc.grnet.gr\/en\/\"><strong>high-performance computing system ARIS<\/strong><\/a> (Advanced Research Information System) to support large-scale scientific applications.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #6761a8;\">Computing Nodes<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The ARIS infrastructure comprises of four islands of computing systems in total, based on Intel x86 architecture interconnected into a single Infiniband FDR14 network that offers multiple capabilities and processing architectures.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An island (thin nodes) is based on the IBM NeXtScale platform and Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 processors. It has 426 computing nodes and offers a total of 8,520 cores (CPU cores).<\/li>\n<li>An island of nodes consisting of 44 Dell PowerEdge R820 servers. Each server offers 4 Intel Xeon E5-4650v2 processors and 512 GB of central memory.<\/li>\n<li>An island of GPU accelerator nodes consisting of 44 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers. Each server contains 2 Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 processors, 64 GB of memory and 2 NVidia K40 GPU cards, and<\/li>\n<li>An island of Xeon Phi accelerator nodes consisting of 18 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers, each containing 2 Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 processors, 64 GB of memory and 2 Intel Xeon Phi 7120P co-processors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For additional information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpc.grnet.gr\/en\/hardware-2\/#hardware-overview\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #6761a8;\">Storage Space<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Additionally, the system offers 2 PB of storage space through IBM&#8217;s General Parallel File System (GPFS). The infrastructure is completed with an IBM TS3500 film library with a maximum storage capacity of approximately 6 PB.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpc.grnet.gr\/en\/hardware-2\/#storage-overview\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #6761a8;\">Application Software<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The full list of application software can be found on the system\u2019s documentation page. For additional information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpc.grnet.gr\/en\/hardware-2\/#software-overview\">here<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16824","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17850,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16824\/revisions\/17850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}