As we previously covered here, Mexico approved its third national laboratory in May, 2014. Now, after less than one year since its announcement, the National Supercomputing Laboratory of the Southeast of Mexico (LNS) has started its operations in March, 2015. LNS is held at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) and is expected to help develop high-impact projects in the region.
Following its vision of "being a national reference with international presence in computing services of high specialization, self-sustainable and in the technology vanguard", LNS is expected to support from 25 to 30 research projects in its first stage. This will be done by providing training courses and access to its supercomputer, referred to as LNS too.
LNS's supercomputer was acquired from Fujitsu and counts with a mostly homogeneous infrastructure. It possesses around 150 Tflops of computing power, 14 TB of memory and 200 TB of storage. The resources are split over 210 computes nodes with four different setups:
- 204 thin nodes with two 12-cores Haswell processors and 128 GB of memory;
- 2 accelerated nodes similar to thin nodes but with two Xeon Phi 7120p coprocessors each;
- 2 accelerated nodes similar to thin nodes but with two Kepler K40 coprocessors each; and
- 2 fat nodes with four 15-cores Haswell processors and 1 TB of memory.
Besides providing an HPC platform for local researchers, LNS will help in international projects involving institutions like the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Researchers should be able to register new user accounts soon.
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