Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam
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Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (SARA) ( Amsterdam Foundation for Academic Computing ) is a Dutch foundation that provides supercomputers, colocation, networks and high-end visualisation to academic institutions. SARA has extensive expertise, both in usage and management of the facilities.
SARA was founded in 1970 to deliver computing facilities to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, and the Mathematics Centre (now Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica). To this day SARA mainly serves the academic world.
SARA is located in the Science Park Amsterdam in Watergraafsmeer. SARA also has a location in Almere.
SARA also offers colocation and hosting these days, and is one of the six locations of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.
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Supercomputers [edit]
Lisa [edit]
- Dell PowerEdge
| Number | Type | Clock | Scratch | Memory | Cache | Cores | InfiniBand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | L5520 | 2.26 GHz | 85 GB | 24 GB QPI 5.86 GT/s | 8 MB | - | |
| 256 | L5520 | 2.26 GHz | 85 GB | 24 GB QPI 5.86 GT/s | 8 MB | 8 | Qlogic |
| 32 | L5640 | 2.26 GHz | 220 GB | 24 GB QPI 5.86 GT/s | 12 MB | 12 | - |
| 64 | L5640 | 2.26 GHz | 220 GB | 24 GB QPI 5.86 GT/s | 12 MB | 12 | Qlogic |
| 144 | 2650L | 1.80 Ghz | 750 GB | 32 GB QPI 8.00 GT/s | 20 MB | 16 | - |
GinA [edit]
| Number | Brand | Model | CPU Model | Clock | Scratch | Memory | Cores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | Dell | PE M610 | L5520 | 2.26 GHz | 512 GB | 24 GB | 8 |
| 80 | Dell | PE M610 | E5649 | 2.53 GHz | 850 GB | 48 GB | 12 |
| 18 | Dell | PE R820 | E5-4620 | 2.20 Ghz | 6800 GB | 256 GB | 32 |
Previous supercomputers:
- Huygens
- IBM System p5-575 (1920 × POWER5+ @ 1.9GHz)
- Aster
- SGI Altix 3700 (416 × Itanium 2 @ 1.3 GHz)
- Teras
- SGI Origin 3800 (1024 × MIPS R14000 @ 500 MHz)
- SOLO
- IBM pSeries 690 (192 × POWER4 @ 1.1/1.7 GHz)
- Matrix
- IBM xSeries 335 (72 × Xeon @ 3.06 GHz)
For high-end visualization, SARA offers among others:
- Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE): a multiuser 3D virtual reality system based on multiple projectors and screens
- Immersadesk: a derivative of the CAVE with a single projection screen
External links [edit]
- SARA website (Dutch)
- SARA website (English)
