Altamira - UC
Altamira is an HPC cluster belonging to the RES (Spanish Supercomputing Network) and is located at the Universidad de Cantabria, within the building of the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA).
Altamira comprises 360 IBM dx blades and since 2007 has provided over 50 million hours of computing, offering resources to various research projects with applications ranging from astronomy and cosmology to life sciences.
HPC resources
Machine name | Altamira |
% of the machine destined to RES | 62% |
Peak performance | 325 TFlop/s |
Main memory | 6 630 TB |
Number of nodes and cores | 69 nodes (3 312 cores) |
Main nodes characteristics | 69 nodes: 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 2.1 GHz and 96GB of RAM |
CPU type | Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 2.1 GHz AMD EPYC 9554 3.1 GHz |
GFlop/s per node | 69 nodes: 3 226 GFlop/s per node 8 nodes: 12 698 GFlop/s per node |
Disk storage | 500 TB GPFS |
Interconnection network | OmniPath 100 Gbps Infiniband EDR 100 |
Operating System | Almalinux 9 |
Support team
The IFCA from Universidad de Cantabria offers support to Altamira users via e-mail, from Monday to Friday from 9h to 17h. If you need UC's support, contact via res_support@ifca.unican.es if you are a RES user, or via ssc@unican.es if you are a user directly through UC itself.