Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center CaSToRC & National HPC Competence Center
165 videos • 123 views • by The Cyprus Institute CaSToRC maintains and supports access to various facilities which are used to support users, offer user services as well as allowing for experimentation and prototyping activities on promising technologies of the future. HPC Systems Cyclone has a theoretical peak performance of 600 TFlop/s. It consists of 17 compute nodes and 16 GPU nodes and is the new production HPC system of The Cyprus Institute since its deployment in 2020. All nodes are equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold 6248 CPUs. The GPU nodes have 4 NVIDIA Tesla V100-SXM2 32GB each. The memory on the compute nodes is 96GB and on the GPU nodes is 192GB. The machine has a flash storage capacity of 135TB and is also connected to the 3PB HPC storage. A HDR100 Infiniband network connects all the system components. Cy-Tera (legacy 2012) Cy-Tera was the first HPC system installed by CaSToRC. It was a hybrid CPU and GPU system of 335 TFlop/s peak performance. Prototype Systems CaSToRC has been maintaining a series of small, prototype computer systems, for developing and benchmarking codes for current and future supercomputers. These include clusters with the latest GPUs and Xeo Phi nodes. These systems are used as a development platform by CaSToRC staff, and have been instrumental in maintaining competitiveness when applying for computer time at the European level. Cy-Tera was one of nine strategic infrastructure projects funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) to develop a national state-of-the-art computational facility. Visualisation and Imaging Facility The CyI Visualization Laboratory (VisLab) allows researchers from all centers of CyI to better understand complex phenomena and visualise their data as images on large-scale and high-resolution visualization walls or other display devices. The CyI Visualization Lab occupies a dedicated area of the institute and the visualization and imaging equipment are being continuously used. The Facility consists of two separate rooms, one for 3D visualization and one for RTI imaging. The facility is fully equipped. As the size of data generated from numerical simulations continues to increase, visualization is expected to play an increasingly more important role in assisting scientists to obtain insight into the simulation output. More info: https://castorc.cyi.ac.cy/