As one of the world’s leading high performance computing (HPC) centres, CESGA is dedicated to providing the academic community, both within Spain and internationally, with industry-leading facilities. In order to continue to lead the way in technological innovation and research, it developed the Finis Terrae HPC platform with support from Intel and HP.
Challenge
- Continue strategic dedication to technological innovation by providing scientists and researchers with fast, reliable high performance computing platform
- Develop world-class reference platform to position Spain as a leader in supercomputing technology projects and support research at a global level
Solution
- Deployed 146 HP Integrity* RX7460 servers powered by Intel® Itanium® processors 9000 series
- A total of 2,580 CPUs provides 19,000GB of memory and 16,000 Gigaflops of processing speed
- Open source platform allows use of Unix, Linux and Microsoft-based applications
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