Athena supercomputer
Athena achieves the theoretical computing power of over 7.7 PFlops, which gave the machine 105th place on the TOP500 list in June 2022 and made it the fastest supercomputer in Poland in the period before the installation of Helios. The system, installed in Cyfronet, provides the Polish scientific community and innovative economy with the most modern computing resources based on the latest generation GPGPU processors and accelerators along with the necessary data storage subsystem based on very fast flash memories. Athena's configuration includes: 48 servers with AMD EPYC processors and 1 TB of RAM (6,144 CPU compute cores in total) as well as 384 NVIDIA A100 GPGPU cards.
The indispensable element enabling the use of such high computing power in an effective way is the provision of a high-performance internal network of a supercomputer (Infiniband HDR with 4 x 200 Gb/s bandwidth per server) and a very fast disk subsystem. It is built on the basis of the Lustre open source software and dedicated disk servers equipped with flash memory in the NVMe standard. The system was installed in the existing Cyfronet data center and integrated with the PLGrid infrastructure.
The computing resources of ACC Cyfronet AGH are part of the PLGrid infrastructure (http://www.plgrid.pl/). An access account to the PLGrid infrastructure can be obtained by registering in the PLGrid Portal (https://portal.plgrid.pl/).
The architecture of Athena meets the needs of users of Cyfronet supercomputers, who use the computing infrastructure both to perform standard high-performance scientific simulations (HPC) and to apply artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods in order to conduct research in the field of medicine, pharmacology, biology, chemistry, physics and many other fields of science.
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