Leftrarú and Guacolda are a pair of supercomputers manufactured by Hewlett-Packard (currently Hewlett Packard Enterprise) and Dell EMC respectively, and installed at the National Laboratory of High Performance Computing (NLHPC), in the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile, being in set the most powerful supercomputer in Chile, and one of the three most powerful in South America.[1] It is intended for the high-performance computing needs for the various scientific and academic organizations in the country.

Leftrarú
Design
ManufacturerHewlett Packard Enterprise
Release dateJuny 18, 2014
Casing
System
Operating systemLinux
CPUDual Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
Memory6.4 TB (RAM)
Storage274 TB
FLOPS50 Teraflops

Guacolda
Design
ManufacturerDell EMC
Release dateJanuary, 2020
Casing
System
Operating systemLinux
CPUDual Intel Xeon 6152
Memory16.512 TB (RAM)
Storage312 TB
FLOPS196 Teraflops

Them are named in honor of Lautaro (the Mapuche military leader) and Guacolda (the Lautaro's wife according to the mapuche mythology).

History

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The Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile, together with other universities, proposed to CONICYT in 2010 the creation of the National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC), which would be dedicated to research through supercomputing.[citation needed]

In 2014, the Leftrarú supercomputer has been inaugurated, built with nodes provided by Hewlett-Packard, providing a theoretical performance of 50 teraflops in the beginnings,[2] and currently performing at 70 teraflops. In January 2020, Guacolda joins, whose hardware is provided by Dell EMC, delivering a theoretical performance of 196 teraflops.[3][4]

Technical specifications

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At the time of the inauguration of Guacolda, the joint supercomputer has 5,236 cores and 266 TFLOPS (theorycal). It is composed of Hewlett-Packard SL200 series and Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 and R740 series nodes.

Leftrarú

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Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Nodes 128x HP SL230 Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
4x HP SL250 Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
CPU cores 2,640
Coprocessors 12 Intel Xeon Phi 5110p 2 Teraflops each
Memory 6.4 TB RAM
Storage 274 TB using Lustre (DDN EXAScaler)
Performance 50 TFLOPS (theorical)
Connectivity Infiniband FDR at 56 Gbit/s
Operating system Linux[citation needed]
Inauguration date Juny 18, 2014

Guacolda

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Manufacturer Dell EMC
Nodes 48x Dell PowerEdge C6420 Dual Intel Xeon 6152 and 192 GB RAM each node
9x Dell PowerEdge C6420 Dual Intel Xeon 6152 and 768 GB RAM each node
2 Dell PowerEdge R740 nodes Dual Intel Xeon 6152, 192 GB RAM, and 2 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPU each node
CPU cores 2.596
Memory 16,5 TB RAM
Storage 312 TB using Lustre (DDN EXAScaler)
Performance 196 TFLOPS (theorical)
Connectivity Infiniband FDR at 56 Gbit/s
Operating system Linux[citation needed]
Inauguration date January 15, 2020

Affiliated organizations

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References

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  1. ^ "Guacolda-Leftrarú: Así es el supercomputador más potente de Chile". 24Horas.cl (in Spanish). 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  2. ^ "U. de Chile inaugura supercomputador más potente de Chile con la capacidad de cálculo de 25 mil notebooks - Universidad de Chile". uchile.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  3. ^ ADN. "El nuevo supercomputador más potente de Chile: Guacolda-Leftrarú". ADN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  4. ^ Pasa, Qué (2020-01-14). "El supercomputador más potente de Chile quintuplica su poder". La Tercera. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
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