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

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

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

Since the end of 2016, SeARCH cluster integrates a node with Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL), the second generation of Intel MIC (Many Integrated Core) architecture. Specifically, the configuration of this node consists of a Xeon Phi 7210, a bootable host processor, with 64 cores, base frequency of 1.30 GHz, […]

The research developed with support of  computing facilities provided by the Project Search-ON2 must include in their publications (papers and thesis) 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), through […]