HPC Constantine

About us

HPC Constantine 1

The HPC center of Constantine 1 University is located on the technology campus, specifically in the former premises of the audiovisual services, within the buildings that also house several research laboratories specialized in chemistry, physics, biology, and mechanics. This geographical and technological proximity will ensure a more efficient use of the resources offered by the HPC.

The implementation of this tool will boost the university’s research and save valuable time for researchers and PhD students in their respective fields.

Overview of the HPC Constantine 1 organization:

The management of the high-performance computing unit must operate on several organizational levels to facilitate researchers’ and PhD students’ access to the equipment, ensure high availability of resources, and guarantee both physical and logical security of the machines.

A few things we’re great at

Cluster CPU

32 compute nodes, each with 32 GB of RAM

STOrage

High-performance storage

Availability

Remote access 24/7

Parallel Computing

Parallel computing architecture for complex calculations

HPC Configuration – Mentouri Constantine 1 University

Hardware Overview

The HPC cluster of Mentouri Constantine 1 University is composed of:

32 IBM X3550 M4 compute nodes, each featuring:
2 × Intel Xeon 8-core processors
32 GB of RAM per node
1 IBM X3550 M4 processing server
1 IBM X3550 M4 administration server
1 IBM X3550 M4 storage server
Connected to an IBM DS3512 storage array with a total capacity of 22 TB

Software Environment

All compute nodes and servers (administration, processing, storage) are equipped with:

CentOS 7.2 with OpenHPC
Slurm workload manager
MPI libraries: MPICH2, MVAPICH
Development tools: C, C++, Fortran, etc.

Additional research-specific software installed upon request:

Abinit (Free)
Yt + Enzo (Free)
Gaussian09
Python (Free)
orca
Anaconda
Octave
Yambo
Quantum espresso
Siesta
ELK

We invite all researchers and PhD students to inform the High-Performance Computing Unit of any software they would like to have installed by completing the request form and sending it to the following email address:

hpc_constantine1@umc.edu.dz