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Laboratory for Advanced Computing (UC-LCA)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
University of Coimbra
Location
Rua Larga, Departamento de Física, Coimbra, PO: 3004-516 (Portugal)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited
Coordinating Country
Portugal
Status
Status
Current Status:
Being upgraded since 2019
Scientific Description
The mission of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing (Laboratório de Computação Avançada - LCA) at University of Coimbra is to support the research efforts of scientists performing research which needs high-performance computing. In addition, LCA provides support for advanced computing courses within the University.To accomplish this, LCA engages in the following activities:- Evaluates, acquires and deploys high performance computing resources, including both computing systems and software.- Offers training workshops and seminars to educate and prepare new users of these resources.- Provides expert consulting and documentation to assist researchers in using these resources effectively.- Collaborate with other computing centers and other Universities to enhance the capabilities of the resources in use at the Laboratory.

RI Keywords
Computing, High performance computing
Classifications
RI Category
Centralised Computing Facilities
Scientific Domain
Information Science and Technology
ESFRI Domain
E-Infrastructure
Services
Computing services

Allocation of computing time for scientific or enterprise projects

Equipment
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Hardware 1 x Login and Management node: Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S8 2 Intel Xeon E5-2630v2 CPU (6 core) at 2.60 GHz and a 15MB cache 64 GB of registered and ECC DDR3 LV RAM 2,4 TB on a RAID 5 array (5 x 600 GB SAS at 6 Gbps) 1 RAID controller (SAS 6 Gbps with 1 GB cache) 1 HCA InfiniBand FDR 56 Gbps - 1 port 1 x Lustre MDS 1 Intel Xeon E5-2630v2 CPU (6 core) at 2.60 GHz and a 15MB cache 128 GB of registered and ECC DDR3 LV RAM 1,8 TB on a RAID 10 array (6 x 600 GB SAS at 6 Gbps) 1 RAID controller (SAS 6 Gbps with 1 GB cache) 1 HCA InfiniBand FDR 56 Gbps - 1 port 5 x Lustre OSS 1 Intel Xeon E5-2630v2 CPU (6 core) at 2.60 GHz and a 15MB cache 32 GB of registered and ECC DDR3 LV RAM 300 GB on RAID 10 array (2 x 600 GB SAS at 6 Gbps) 36 TB on a RAID 5 array (10 x 4 TB SATA at 6 Gbps) 1 RAID controller (SAS 6 Gbps with 1 GB cache) 1 HCA InfiniBand FDR 56 Gbps - 1 port 164 x computing nodes in 41 multi-node Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX400 S2 servers 2 Intel Xeon E5-2697v2 (12 core) at 2.70 GHz and a 30 MB cache 96 GB of registered and ECC DDR3 LV RAM 1 HCA InfiniBand FDR 56 Gbps - 1 port Software Operating Software System: CentOS 6.5 (updating to 7.5) Lustre version: 2.5.3 (updating to 2.10.6) Resource Manager: Slurm Scheduler: Slurm Allocation Management: Slurm bank User Environment Manager: Environment Modules Compilers: GNU and Intel

Date of last update: 16/04/2019
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