Our computing infrastructure Stevin has position 496 in the Top 500 Supercomputer ranking of November 2008 with a peak performance of 15 TFLOPS.

We already did some expansions and to date Stevin has a theoretical peak performance of around 50 TFLOPS.

The infrastructure was co-financed by the Hercules Foundation and Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI).

Stevin actually consists of five cluster which are being in hosted in three datacenters in Gent: datacenter Rectoraat, datacenter MRB and datacenter S10.

Details worker nodes

• 192 computing nodes
  
• Dual socket quad core Intel Xeon Harpertown (L5420)
• 16 GB RAM per node
  
• Infiniband connectX DDR
• 54 computing nodes
  
• Dual-socket quad-core Intel Xeon Nehalem (L5520)
• 12 GB RAM per node
  
• 167 computing nodes, for single node jobs
• Dual-socket quad-core Intel Xeon Nehalem (L5520)
• 12 GB RAM per node
  
• 34 computing Dell C6145 nodes
• Quad-socket octa-core AMD Magny-Cours (Opteron 6136)
• 1088 cores
  
• 2 GB RAM per core
• Infiniband Double QDR
• 16 computing nodes
  
• Dual-socket hexa-core Intel Westmere-EP (X5675)
• 8Gb per core
• Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) machine based on vSMP Foundation from ScaleMP
  

Storage

• Total storage space: 60 TB
• 30 TB fast temporary storage (Scratch
• 30 TB long term storage
  
• no back up
  
• General Parallel File System (GPFS)