PRACE

Cluster of IUCC

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class high performance computing service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe. The computer systems and their operations accessible through PRACE are provided by 5 PRACE members (BSC representing Spain, CINECA representing Italy, CSCS representing Switzerland, GCS representing Germany and GENCI representing France). The Implementation Phase of PRACE receives funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement RI-312763 and from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under grant agreement 653838. For more information see www.prace-ri.eu

Technical Details

Model	Number of Severs	Processors	Cores each node	Frequency processor	Memory / node	HDD per node
IBM x3450 servers	53	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5472	8	3.0 GHz	64 GB	1TB

Peformance

Parmeter	Value
Processor Number	E5472
Processor Base Frequency	3.00 GHz
Cache	12 MB L2
Bus speed	1600 MHz FSB
FSB parity	Yes
TDP	80 W
VID Voltage Range	0.850V-1.3500V