LHRS

Name: HPC RIVR - Upgrade of national research infrastructures - HPC RIVR

Duration: December 1, 2018 to March 31, 2021

Project partners: University of Maribor, Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto and Institute of Information Science

Funders: European Union from the European Regional Development Fund, MIZŠ and EURO HPC JU

Within the project, two supercomputer centers were established (at UM and IZUM) with the main goal of strengthening national high-performance computing capacities for the needs of the Slovenian research-innovation and economic space. Within the project, a prototype supercomputer with more than 4000 processor cores was first established at the University of Maribor, which is intended for the development and testing of appropriate, mainly software solutions for the operation of the central supercomputer. Based on the knowledge gained, a supercomputer was established at the Institute for Information Sciences, which has 960 central processing unit nodes (total 1920 central processing units AMD Epyc 7H12 – 122,000 cores) and 60 graphics processing unit nodes (total 240 graphics processing units NVidia A100), the permanent performance of HPC Vega is 6.9 PFLOPS (maximum performance is 10.1 PFLOPS). LHRS UM-FERI established a big data archive within this project. All functionalities we developed for this data archive were also included in the software for repositories of the national open access infrastructure.