A new version of the SeARCH cluster is available, based on CentOS 7 and the SLURM scheduler.

In the first semester of the 2018/19 academic year, the SeARCH cluster will be the training platform for more than 300 students from the Master’s Degree in Informatics Engineering and the Master’s Degree in Physics Engineering, enrolled in the following Course Units: Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, Distributed Parallel Computing, and […]

In September 2017, four nodes with Xeon Broadwell processors were installed. Two of these nodes are equipped with two E5-2683v4 processors and 256 GB of RAM, while the other two have two E5-2660v4 processors and 128 GB of RAM. Three of these nodes were funded by the Center of Biological […]

Since the end of 2016, the SeARCH cluster has included a node with an Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL) processor, the second generation of Intel’s MIC (Many Integrated Core) architecture. Specifically, this node is configured with a Xeon Phi 7210 — a bootable host processor — with 64 cores, […]

Publications (papers and theses) resulting from research supported by the computing facilities provided by the Search-ON2 Project must include the following reference: “Search-ON2: Revitalization of HPC infrastructure of UMinho” (NORTE-07-0162-FEDER-000086), co-funded by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), […]