About

High Performance Computing, for UNAM research.

HPC aggregates the compute power of many nodes to deliver performance far beyond a typical desktop — enabling machine learning, data mining, weather forecasting, computational chemistry and molecular dynamics at scale.

Hosted by VISCAI

UNAM's High Performance Computing facility is hosted by the Virtual Institute of Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence (VISCAI). The facility comprises two compute racks and a dedicated data storage rack, fronted by a single login node.

Usage of the UNAM HPC facilities is free for UNAM researchers, students, and approved partner institutions. In return, we ask that any publication resulting from work done on the cluster include the acknowledgement below.

This research made use of the University of Namibia HPC resource hosted by the Virtual Institute for Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence (VISCAI).
Hardware

Cluster specifications

Four independent systems make up the cluster today.

Login Server

  • CPUXeon E5-2603 v4 @ 1.70GHz
  • RAM32 GB
  • Storage13 TB

Sun Blade 6048 “Ranger”

  • Nodes48
  • Cores768
  • RAM1.5 TB total
  • Per nodeQuad-core AMD Opteron 8356, 32 GB RAM
  • StorageDiskless

Dell PowerEdge c8220 “Stampede”

  • Nodes40
  • RAM1.2 TB total
  • Storage10 TB total
  • Per nodeSandy Bridge 80623, 16 cores, 32 GB RAM
  • Per node storage250 GB HDD

Data Storage Rack

  • Storage nodes10 × 200 TB total
  • Compute nodes10 × 2 TB/node
  • Cores160 total
  • Storage200 TB total
On site

The hardware, up close

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People

Coordinators

Dr. Micheal Backes

Project Coordinator
mbackes@unam.na
+264 61 206 3789

Jimmy Shapopi

HPC System Administrator
jshapopi@unam.na
+264 816699336