Summary

The aim of this unit is to provide computing resources and technical support to researchers at the CRG. The unit has expertise sufficient to build high-performance computing systems over the coming years, to meet the high compute and bandwidth capabilities required by researchers.

SIT provides knowledge and best practices to users for an optimal usage of the computing resources improving users’ applications performance and providing them with training.

As an operations team, SIT is in charge of more than 200 compute nodes and servers, 3,020 cores dedicated to computing, all of which is using a 10Gb Ethernet network.

The exponential growth in genomic data, especially from Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS), demands high performance and scalable storage infrastructures. The unit manages the heterogeneous storage resources that contain researchers’ data, currently 5 PB of usable storage in two different locations.

The facility has become a key partner in many of the research projects being carried out within the institute..

Services

  • HPC cluster support
  • Databases and servers’ administration
  • Storage provisioning

Equipment detail

  • Linux cluster with 3,020 cores for computing and more than 200 compute nodes and servers.
  • Univa Grid Engine batch queuing system
  • 5 PB of storage (EMC-Isilon, DDN, Nexsan)

87 compute nodes:

  • 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680 20M Cache 8 core at 2.70 Ghz
  • 128 GB de RAM (8 GB/core)

56 compute nodes:

  • 2 Intel Xeon E5530 4 core at 2.40GHz
  • 48 GB memory (6 GB/core)

1 High memory compute node:

  • 8 processor Intel Xeon E7450 6 core at 2.40 GHz
  • 512GB memory

1 High memory compute node:

  • 4 processor Intel Xeon E7540 6 core processors at 2.00 GHz
  • 256 GB memory

60 heterogeneous compute nodes with different hardware specifications.