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PARADOX Supercomputing Facility (PARADOX)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Institute of Physics Belgrade
Address:
Pregrevica 118, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Belgrade, PO: 11080 (Serbia)
Location
Pregrevica 118, Scientific Computing Laboratory, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Belgrade, PO: 11080 (Serbia)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited
Coordinating Country
Serbia
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 2016
Timeline
Operational since 2016
Under construction since 2012 to 2016
Design/planning since 2008 to 2012
Scientific Description
The mission of the PARADOX Supercomputing Facility, which is hosted by the Scientific Computing Laboratory of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Institute of Physics Belgrade, is to support excellent research in physics and related scientific disciplines.

RI Keywords
Theoretical physics, Parallel computing, Computing, Condensed matter science, Large-scale complex systems
Classifications
RI Category
Research Data Service Facilities
Centralised Computing Facilities
Scientific Domain
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
Information Science and Technology
Chemistry and Material Sciences
ESFRI Domain
E-Infrastructure
Services
Computing service

Computing service enables researchers to perform numerical simulations on the PARADOX Supercomputing Facility.

Data storage service

Data storage service enables researcher who use the PARADOX Supercomputing Facility to store data generated by their numerical simulations.

Equipment
PARADOX Cluster

PARADOX Cluster consists of 106 compute nodes (2 x 8 core Sandy Bridge Xeon 2.6GHz processors with 32GB of RAM + NVIDIA® Tesla™ M2090) interconnected by the QDR InfiniBand network. PARADOX is an HP Proliant SL250s-based cluster with the following components: Compute nodes: HP Proliant SL250s Processors Type: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge, 8 Core, 20M Cache, 2.60 GHz) Number of nodes: 106 Number of CPU cores: 1696 Number of GPUs: 106 NVIDIA® Tesla™ M2090 (5375MB of RAM, 512 CUDA cores at 1.3GHz, Compute capability 2.0) RAM: 32 GB/node (4x8GB) DRR3 1600MHz Network infrastructure: InfiniBand QDR Operating system: The operating system on PARADOX cluster is Scientific Linux.

Access
Access Type
Remote
Access Mode
Excellence Driven
Access Webpage
http://www.scl.rs/
Users
Number of Users
Number Year
40 2019
40 2018
35 2017
20 2016
Users Definition
Individuals
User Demographics
European Users - 15.0% in 2019
National Users - 80.0% in 2019
Extra-European Users - 5.0% in 2019
National Users - 80.0% in 2018
Extra-European Users - 5.0% in 2018
European Users - 15.0% in 2018
Type of Users
Academic - 100.0%
Date of last update: 23/04/2019
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