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PRACE HPC Infrastructure

The PRACE HPC infrastructure is made up of eight Tier-0 systems and seventeen Tier-1 systems, connected via VPN.

Tier-0 Systems

Five countries and six partners provide the following Tier-0 systems, and allow a peak up to 77 Petaflop/s.

CountrySite (Partner)HPC SystemRPeak (Teraflop/s)
FranceCEA (GENCI)Joliot-Curie KNL2 300
FranceCEA (GENCI)Joliot-Curie Rome12 000
FranceCEA (GENCI)Joliot-Curie SKL6 600
GermanyJUELICH (FZJ)JUWELS Booster71 000
GermanyJUELICH (FZJ)JUWELS Cluster9 900
GermanyLRZ (GCS)SuperMUC-NG26 900
GermanyHLRS (GCS)HAWK25 200
ItalyCINECA (CINECA)Marconi10020 000
SpainBSC (BSC)MareNostrum 411 150
SwitzerlandCSCS (ETH)Piz Daint15 988

Pictures of PRACE Tier-0 Systems, as further described here.

Tier-1 Systems

Twelve countries and twelve partners provide the Tier-1 systems, and allow a peak up to 16.21 Petaflop/s.

CountrySite (Partner)HPC SystemRPeak (Teraflop/s)
Czech RepublicIT4I/VSB-TUO (VSB-TUO)Anselm66
Czech RepublicIT4I/VSB-TUO (VSB-TUO)Salomon2 000
FinlandCSCMahti7 060.7
FranceIDRIS (GENCI)Turing1 258
GreeceGRNET (GRNET)ARIS190.8
HungaryKIFU (KIFU)Leo254
HungaryKIFU (KIFU)PHItagoras27
IrelandICHEC (ICHEC)Kay665
NorwayUIO (Sigma2)Abel178.6
PolandCYFRONET (PSNC)Zeus (BigMem)61.2
PolandCYFRONET (PSNC)Prometheus2 400
PolandPSNC (PSNC)Eagle1 380
PolandWCSS (PSNC)Bem640
SlovakiaCCSAS (CCSAS)Aurel128
SpainBSC (BSC)MINOTAURO250.9
SwedenPDC (SNIC)Beskow1 973
The NetherlandsSURFsara (SURFsara)Cartesius1 843
United KingdomEPCC (EPCC)ARCHER2 550.5

The different HPC systems are connected via a dedicated PRACE VPN.

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