The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) announced the entry into production of its newest supercomputer, MareNostrum 5 (MN5), in which Portugal holds a 5% stake, funded by the EU's RRP in Portugal. This new milestone in European supercomputing comes after the completion of the physical and logical assembly of the platform's two largest partitions.
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) invites the national sectors of Science, Technology, Innovation and Public Administration to submit expressions of interest in accessing the production phase of MN5. Interested parties must complete and submit the simplified form, available at expression of interest form, until September 9, 2024.
Selection Process Details
Applications will be evaluated every two weeks by the FCT, particularly through the advanced computing services of FCCN, digital services of FCT, with support from the technical team. Selection will be based on three main criteria: (1) order in which requests are received, (2) candidates' previous experience, and (3) immediate availability to use resources.
Access Conditions
- Features Available on Request:
- Minimum 1,000 k and maximum 5,000 k CPU core.hours
- Maximum 100 kGPU core.hours
- Maximum 100TB of storage
- Expected period per access: 4 months from August 2024 to December 31, 2024.
- Selection Preferences: Candidates with HPC experience, previous approved projects, or computational work on other HPC machines will be given priority.
The Deucalion and BSC technical support team will assess and validate the requirements. Each candidate can only have one access request approved, and the process will end when all available resources through the Advanced Computing Project Competitions for MN5 are exhausted.
Features of MareNostrum 5
The MN5 is one of the first three pre-exascale supercomputers co-funded by the European EuroHPC initiative, with a peak performance of 314 petaFLOPs. The platform includes several partitions, such as the GPP partition with Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU nodes and HBM nodes with NVMe storage, and the ACC partition with nodes with Nvidia Hopper GPUs and NVMe storage. It has SSD/Flash storage and hard drives, with high read and write performance, as well as tapes for long-term storage. More information can be found at MareNostrum 5 website and in MareNostrum 5 | BSC Support Knowledge Center.
Information and Contact
For more information, visit the demonstration page of interest to access the MN5 production phase or contact us via email at rnca@fccn.pt.
