Decommisioned systems
- Hexagon
Systems - Hexagon
Hexagon - in operation from 2008 to 2017
UiB operates supercomputer facilities that serve the high-end computational needs of scientists at Norwegain universities and other national research and industrial organizations.
Significant use of Hexagon has traditionally come from computational chemistry, computational physics, computational biology, the geosceinces and mathematics. The supercomputer machine Hexagon is installed at the High Technological Center in Bergen (HiB) and is managed and operated by UiB. Hexagon was upgraded from Cray XT4 in March 2012.
Technical details
System Cray XE6-200 Number of Cores 22272 Number of nodes 696 Cores per node 32 CPU type Cray Gemini Interconnect TFlops peak performace 204.9 Teraflops/s Operative system Cray Linux Environment - Gardar
Systems - Gardar
Gardar - in operation from 2012 to 2015
Gardar is an HP BladeCenter cluster consisting of one frontend (management, head) node, 2 login nodes and 288 compute nodes running Centos Linux managed by Rocks. Each node contains two Intel Xeon Processors with 24GB memory. The compute nodes are located in HP racks. Each HP rack contains three c7000 Blade enclosures where each enclosure contains 16 compute nodes.
Gardar has a separate strorage sysetm. The X9320 Network storage system is available to the entire cluster and uses the IBRIX Fusion software. The total usable storage of X9320 is 71.6TByte. The storage system is connected to the cluster with an Infiniband QDR network.
Technical details
System HP Bl280cG6 Servers Number of cores 3456 Number of nodes 288 CPU type Intel Xeon E5649 (2.53GHz) - Westmere -EP Number of teraflops 35TFlops Total storage capacity 71.6TByte - Abel
Systems - Abel
Abel - in operation from 2012 to 2020
Named after the famous Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, the Linux cluster at UiO is a shared resource for research computing capable of 258 TFLOP/s theoretical peak performance. At the time of installation 1 October 2012, Abel reached position 96 on the Top500 list of the most powerfull systems in the world.
Abel is an allround, allpurpose cluster designed to handle multiple concurrent jobs / users with varying requirements. Instead of massively parallell applications, the primary application profile is for moderately to smaller parallel applications with high IO and/or memory demand.
Technical details
System MEGWARE MiriQuid 2600 Number of Cores 10000+ Number of nodes 650+ CPU type Intel E5 2670 Max Floating point performance, double: 258 Teraflops/s Total memory 40 TebiBytes Total disc capacity 400 TiB
Systems - Hexagon
Hexagon - in operation from 2008 to 2017
UiB operates supercomputer facilities that serve the high-end computational needs of scientists at Norwegain universities and other national research and industrial organizations.
Significant use of Hexagon has traditionally come from computational chemistry, computational physics, computational biology, the geosceinces and mathematics. The supercomputer machine Hexagon is installed at the High Technological Center in Bergen (HiB) and is managed and operated by UiB. Hexagon was upgraded from Cray XT4 in March 2012.
Technical details
| System | Cray XE6-200 |
| Number of Cores | 22272 |
| Number of nodes | 696 |
| Cores per node | 32 |
| CPU type | Cray Gemini Interconnect |
| TFlops peak performace | 204.9 Teraflops/s |
| Operative system | Cray Linux Environment |
Systems - Gardar
Gardar - in operation from 2012 to 2015
Gardar is an HP BladeCenter cluster consisting of one frontend (management, head) node, 2 login nodes and 288 compute nodes running Centos Linux managed by Rocks. Each node contains two Intel Xeon Processors with 24GB memory. The compute nodes are located in HP racks. Each HP rack contains three c7000 Blade enclosures where each enclosure contains 16 compute nodes.
Gardar has a separate strorage sysetm. The X9320 Network storage system is available to the entire cluster and uses the IBRIX Fusion software. The total usable storage of X9320 is 71.6TByte. The storage system is connected to the cluster with an Infiniband QDR network.
Technical details
| System | HP Bl280cG6 Servers |
| Number of cores | 3456 |
| Number of nodes | 288 |
| CPU type | Intel Xeon E5649 (2.53GHz) - Westmere -EP |
| Number of teraflops | 35TFlops |
| Total storage capacity | 71.6TByte |
Systems - Abel
Abel - in operation from 2012 to 2020
Named after the famous Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, the Linux cluster at UiO is a shared resource for research computing capable of 258 TFLOP/s theoretical peak performance. At the time of installation 1 October 2012, Abel reached position 96 on the Top500 list of the most powerfull systems in the world.
Abel is an allround, allpurpose cluster designed to handle multiple concurrent jobs / users with varying requirements. Instead of massively parallell applications, the primary application profile is for moderately to smaller parallel applications with high IO and/or memory demand.
Technical details
| System | MEGWARE MiriQuid 2600 |
| Number of Cores | 10000+ |
| Number of nodes | 650+ |
| CPU type | Intel E5 2670 |
| Max Floating point performance, double: | 258 Teraflops/s |
| Total memory | 40 TebiBytes |
| Total disc capacity | 400 TiB |