Institute for Biocomputation and
Physics of Complex Systems

At the end of 2006, the University of Zaragoza joined Red Española de Supercomputación (RES), hosting CAESARAUGUSTA, one of the seven supercomputers spread over Spain with center in Mare Nostrum (BSC-CNS) and connected through high bandwidth links, whose mission is to satisfy the growing computing needs of research in Spain.

Frontal view of CAESARAUGUSTA

CAESARAUGUSTA is located at the Faculty of Science of the University of Zaragoza and is managed by the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI). Together with the rest of supercomputers connected to RES, it is catalogued by MEC (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) as a "Instalación Científica y Tecnológica Singular (ICTS)" (special scientific infrastructure).

The current computing power of CAESARAUGUSTA is 4,5 TeraFLOPS. Summary of hardware components:
                  - 512 processors PowerPC 970FX 2.2 GHz
                  - 1TB RAM memory
                  - 14 + 10 TBytes for storage
                  - Interconnection networks Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet

Operationally, CAESARAUGUSTA works as a distributed memory system and runs SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as operating system, Load Leveler as batch scheduler and GPFS as parallel filesystem. Users have a large range of software applications available.