SeARCH

SeARCH version 7

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:59:48 +0000

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

SeARCH Education

admin — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:05:06 +0000

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 Advanced Computing.

If you are a student in one of these Course Units and are not yet registered, please contact: search-admin (at) di (dot) uminho (dot) pt.

Intel Xeon Broadwell Processors

admin — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:46:14 +0000

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 Engineering (CEB), and the other node was funded by the Institute for Polymers and Composites (IPC) — both research centers at the University of Minho.

Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing node

admin — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:55:01 +0000

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, a base frequency of 1.30 GHz, 192 GB of RAM, and running CentOS 7.2, the minimum operating system version required to support this processor.

For more information, see Xeon Phi.

Acknowledgments in Scientific Publications

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:33:34 +0000

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), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).”

SeARCH-ON2 Installed

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:47:15 +0000

In the last quarter of 2014, was done the installation of new equipment under the project “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 the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).” This operation took place in 3 phases: first phase corresponded to the installation of 20 compute nodes, each with two Xeon processors 2650V2 (8 cores, 2.6GHz), 64GB RAM and 120GB SSD. In the second phase were installed 6 nodes to explore emerging technologies, which includes four nodes with two Xeon processors E5-2695V2 (12 cores 2.40GHz), 64GB RAM, 120GB SSD and two accelerators Xeon Phi 7120X and two more nodes with two Xeon processors E5-2695V2, 64GB RAM, 120GB SSD and with 2 GPUs NVidia Tesla K40M. The third phase consisted of installing a storage system composed by a SAN with 48TB of raw capacity for user’s homes and four storage nodes, each with two Xeon processors 2650V2 (8 cores, 2.6GHz), 64GB RAM and with 12TB of storage space, dedicated to the treatment of large volumes of data (scratch and bigdata).