Tech specs

HPC Midlands is built around a new supercomputer, Hera. This is Hera’s technical specification:

• • 3,000 core supercomputer (48 Teraflops)
  • 11 x chassis (18 blades per chassis)
  • 15TB RAM
  • 120TB Lustre storage
  • QDR Infiniband interconnect
  • 188 compute node blades
    • 2 x 2.0GHz (8 core) Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs per blade
    • 140 blades with 64GB RAM (4GB/core)
    • 48 blades with 128GB RAM (8GB/core)
  • Running Bull Linux 6 (RedHat Linux compatible)

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), through £1m grant funding – grant ref EP/K000063/1 as part of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills e-Infrastructure initiative.