"A University without Boundaries" is the motto of the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA, from its Portuguese acronym), a public university created in 2010 that harmonizes the education and research needs of several countries in Latin America in areas related to social studies and natural resources, among others. UNILA's courses are taught in Portuguese and Spanish to accommodate its students and faculty members coming from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. UNILA is strategically located in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, a city with borders with Argentina and Paraguay.
In order to enable research in applied sciences, UNILA counts with its High Performance Computing Laboratory (LCAD) since 2012. The laboratory seeks to provide computational support to researchers from any education or research institution in Latin America, not being restricted to UNILA staff only. This is done mainly by providing access to its cluster named HPC-Lattes.
HPC-Lattes is a Bull cluster with three kinds of nodes that support applications with different requirements. Their kinds and numbers are listed below.
- Fifteen thin nodes are composed of two 6-core Westmere processors and 24 GB of memory. They are used for general parallel applications.
- Eight accelerated nodes that add two M2050 Fermi GPUs to the usual thin node configuration. They are available for accelerated applications and applications with higher processing requirements.
- Five fat nodes are composed of four 8-cores Nehalem processors and 256 GB of memory. They are used for shared memory applications and applications with higher memory requirements.
In total, HPC-Lattes provides 12.16 TFLOPS distributed over 404 CPU and 7168 GPU cores, 1.8 TB of memory and 36 TB of storage. If you are now considering requesting an account on HPC-Lattes to develop your research, the application form can be found here.
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