CénitS houses Lusitania Supercomputer, a huge shared-memory supercomputer in Spain and Europe.

Its specifications:

Compute nodes

• 2 HP Integrity SuperDome SX2000: 2x (64 processors/128 cores) = 128 processors/256 cores.
• Itanium2 Montvale @ 1.6 GHz, 18 MB cache.
• 2x 1TB memory per node = 2TB de memory.
• 2x 40x146GB SAS disks = 3,6TB to scratch.
• Suse Linux "SLES 10" operative system (Windows Server, HP-UX, Red Hat, SLES, ..., may be run simultaneously).
• High availability: N+1 OLR blowers, N+1 OLR energy suppliers, double energy suppliers, cells OLAR, OLAR I/O cards, ECC in CPUs, memory and all data ways, Dynamic Processor Resilience, Dynamic Memory Resilience (Chip Kill doble) and two ways between switches and cell driver, memory and CPUs.
• Up to 16 physical partitions and 64 virtual partitions.

Storage

• Fiberchannel network with multipathing active-active (8 ports x 4 drivers).
• 2 EVAs 8100 x [(208 FC disks x 450GB) + (128 FATA disks x 1TB)] = 265,6TB.
• 2 DL380-G5 NAS servers running distributed filesystem HP StorageWorks PolyServe.

Backup

• Backup system over tape library HP Storageworks EML 245e.
• Capacity for 245 tapes of LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 technology, offering capacity of 392 TB in 2:1 compression.
• Managment and unattended planning backup HP StorageWorks DataProtector software.

Network topology

Service and computation infrastructure uses 2 ProCurve switches, HP ProCurve 5406ZL model with the following specifications:

• 6 slots for expansion modules.
• 8 10Gigabit Ethernet active ports in 4 ports modules to connect Superdomes and rx2660 service nodes for computing.
• 24 Gigabit Ethernet active ports in a 24 ports module to connect all servers.
• Modules and Switches needed to connect all remote console processors in every node through Fast Ethernet/GBE connections.
• 10Gbps connection with Extremadura RCT that allows to connect main regional cities and technological centers. Interconnected to RedIRIS and GÉANT.

Service Nodes

• Login/Development/Managment HPC services.
• 4 x HP Integrity rx2660: 4 cores “Intel Itanium-2 dual-core Montvale (1,6Ghz/18MB “cache built in chip”)” ; 16GB DDR-2 memory; 6 x 146 GB SAS disks.

Managment Nodes

• 2 x HP Proliant DL380-G5: 8 cores “Intel Xeon Quad-Core E5450 (3.0 GHz, 1333 FSB, 80W)”; 8 GB FBD DDR-2 memory; 2 x 146 GB SAS disks.

Cloud Computing Nodes

• 2 x HP Proliant DL-380-G7: 2 cores "Intel Xeon Quad Core E5630", 32 GB and 64 GB memory; 2 x 146 GB SAS disks.
• 1 x HP Proliant DL-380-G5: 2 cores “Intel Xeon Quad Core E5450”, 16 GB memory; 2 x 146 GB SAS disks.
• 2 x HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 Server Blade, with HP BL465c Gen8 AMD Opteron 6276 (2.3GHz/16-core/16MB) cores, 256 GB RAM/server y 4 x 300GB SAS disks.

GPUs

• 2 x HP ProLiant WS460c G6 Workstation Blade with HP BL460c G7 Intel Xeon E5645 (2.40GHz/6-core/12MB) cores, 96 GB RAM/server, 4 x 300 GB SAS disks and 2 x NVIDIA Tesla M2070Q (448 cuda cores and 6GB GDDR5).