The well-known Aurel supercomputer, the first publicly accessible supercomputer in Slovakia, was procured and operated within the framework of the Slovak Infrastructure for High-Performance Computing (SIVVP) project.
The preparatory phase of the project began in 2008. In 2012, not only the Aurel system but also several computing systems at partner institutions were installed. Based on the experience gained during the first phase, the Aurel supercomputer and other computing resources within the SIVVP project were expanded in 2014.
The Aurel supercomputer remained in operation until 2021. Through the use of Aurel and other SIVVP systems, researchers produced more than 300 high-quality scientific outputs.
List of SIVVP Partners and Installed Systems
Centre of Shared Activities of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Computing Centre of SAS
IBM POWER 775 – AUREL
Number of Computing Cores
4096
Memory
32 TB
Interconnect Network
5–48 GB/s Internal Optical Links, 10 GB/s Ethernet connection to data storage
External Data Storage Capacity
600 TB
Internal Data Storage Capacity
300 TB
Operating System
AIX
Centre of Shared Activities of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Computing Centre of SAS – Žilina Branch Office
IBM Cluster
POWER 755/750
POWER 780
POWER 755
Number of Compute Nodes
18
1
2
Memory per Compute Node
128 GB
1024 GB
256 GB
Disk Subsystem
6 × 600 GB
8 × 600 GB
6 × 600 GB
Interconnect Network
40 GB/s
40 GB/s
40 GB/s
Operating System
AIX
AIX
AIX
Institute of Experimental Physics SAS, Košice
IBM iDataPlex dx360 M3
Number of CPU Cores
360
Processor
2 × 6-core Intel Xeon X5640 @ 2.27 GHz
Number of GPU-Accelerated Cores
352
GPU
16 × NVIDIA Tesla M2070 (6 GB RAM, 448 CUDA cores); 10 × NVIDIA Tesla K20 (5 GB RAM, 2496 CUDA cores)
