Teide HPC (High Performance Computing) is a fundamental part of the ALiX project for the implementation of infrastructures aimed at the creation of an industrial fabric around Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Tenerife.
The Teide supercomputer offers researchers and companies a means of high processing capacity to improve and expand the national and international scope of research and development. It is worth noting that it was present in the top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ranking 138th in the November 2013 list.
For the implementation of this infrastructure, ITER has received a total of 8.5 million euros in the framework of the INNPLANTA program of the Ministry of Innovation and Science, charged to FEDER funds for the acquisition of scientific-technological infrastructures for R+D+i.
Teide HPC is a general-purpose high-performance computing infrastructure with the following features:
Computation
Three types of computing platforms are available:
- 1028-node Sandy Bridge platforms with two Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors 32 GB / 64 GB of memory
- 72-node Ivy Bridge platforms with two Intel Xeon E5-2670v2 processors 32 GB of memory
- Fat nodes, 3 nodes with four Intel Xeon E5-4620 processors 256 GB of memory
Storage
NetApp storage with a capacity of 2.1 PB net, configured in cluster format with all elements redundant to deal with possible hardware failures, with global spare disks.
Lustre parallel storage will also be available for applications requiring a high number of I/O operations.
Web
Teide-HPC has a network topology where four specific purpose networks are defined. A dedicated storage network, a dedicated management network, an out of band network and a low latency Infiniband QDR network at 40Gbps for computation.
As security measures, TeideHPC has IPSec tunnels, VPN connections and the possibility of establishing private VLANs for its clients.
Connectivity
TeideHPC connects to the Internet through the Spanish academic and research network, RedIris, via a 10 Gb link. It also has connectivity through the ALiX project.
For data transfers, transfer nodes are available that allow large amounts of data to be copied to user space by directly accessing the data backbone.
