Tier-1 supercomputer in few figures

This page presents some details about the supercomputer and its usage, accounted since 1 July 2014 until 31 December 2018.

Public investment

Key parameter Value
Project FEDER SINUS-Equipement funding € 4 851 425
Project PRACE Tier-1 funding € 4 867 350

 

Supercomputer

Key parameter Value Comments
Number of cores 14 016 Cores are processors gouped on a same socket  (or  processor)
Usage rate >90%  
Maximum theoritical peak performance 408.7 Tflops 400 billion of billion of floating point operations per second, FLOPS
Achieved performance 332.6 Tflops HPL Benchmark  Linpack du Top 500
World ranking 415e June 2016 Top 500
Best world ranking 300e November 2014 Top 500
Memory 38.75 TB Equivalent to 10 000 DVD data storage instantly accessible
Data storage 384 TB Equivalent to 100 000 DVD with a burn rate of 2 per second (8 GB/s)

 

Infrastructure

Key parameter Value Comments
Cooling power 480 kW To cool equivalent to the heat produced by fifteen domestic households.
Dedicated high voltage cabin power 1 MW  
Power usage effectivness 1.2 Only 20% of the consumed energy is not used by computations
Availability rate >99,5% Less than 2 days of unavailability per year, this corresponds to industry standards in the area.

 

Results for the research

Key parameter Value Comments
Number of academic users 192 Distributed over 31 research units
Number of academic research projects using the Tier-1 supercomputer 300  
Number of computing hours distributed to these projects 300 507 788 More than 300 millions computation hours
Number of PhD which benefited from the Tier-1 supercomputer 57 11 are already defended
Number of publications in international journals 61 Journals with peer review process and publications quoting the Tier-1 supercomputer, see CÉCI page
Number of computing hours got on Tier-0 supercomputers 59 728 943 About 60 millions computing hours allocated by PRACE (until Call 17) to Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles academic research units

 

Results for the Economy, Industry and Innovation

Key parameter Value Comments
Number of wlloon research centers users 128  
Number of applied research project using the Tier-1 supercomputer 86  
Number of computing hours used by these projects 57 070 593 More than 57 millions computing hours
Number of industrial users 42  
Number of computing hours used by companies 54 299 510 More than 54 millions computing hours
Number of computing hours got on Tier-0 supercomputers 250 750 00 About 250 millions computing hours allocated by PRACE (until Call 17) and INCITE (until Call 2019).