Promote and support Open Science initiatives in supercomputing
The Minho Advanced Computer Center is a national collaborative infrastructure to promote and support Open Science initiatives in supercomputing, data science and visualization. It is a sustainable computing and data infrastructure, aimed at national scientific and industrial communities, articulating with international partners.
Who is it intended for?
MACC is eligible to apply:
- Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D (Research and Development) units;
- State or international laboratories based in Portugal;
- Private non-profit institutions whose main purpose is to carry out R&D activities;
- Other public and private non-profit institutions that carry out or participate in scientific research activities;
- Undertakings of any kind and in any legal form
Technical characteristics
MACC is the main member of the RNCA - National Network for Advanced Computing - and operates a set of technological resources of the HPC - High Performance Computing- type, to be used by the research, technology and innovation/industry communities.
MAAC was created in November 2017 through an agreement signed between FCT, the University of Minho and the University of Texas at Austin (USA), which manages one of the world's largest supercomputing centers in academia, the TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center.
MACC Features
"BOB" - Supercomputer inaugurated in July 2019. The current system is part of the Stampede 1 supercomputer of the TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center and is named "Bob".
- Supercomputer with 800 compute-nodes and 12800 colors.
- Each node has two Intel 8-core "Sandy Bridge" Xeon processors at 2.7Ghz with 32GB of RAM.
- All nodes are integrated on a Mellanox FDR 56 Gb/s InfiniBand Mellanox network
- Bob uses a shared file system (Lustre) with 1.5 PB.
Software: See the updated list
DEUCALION - The New Supercomputer to be installed in 2020/2021
