ARCTUR2

ARCTUR-2 has been designed and built to fit various and diverse usage scenarios, from general use Cloud Computing to HPC computing as well as Big Data analytics. By converging different types of servers into a single entity the highest performance, energy efficiency and seamless management are achieved thus guaranteeing excellent and cost-effective services to users.

HPC Infrastructure Description 

Arctur can offer:

• High-performance computing services
• Hosting of virtual servers and private virtual data centers
• Hosting of physical servers
• Colocation services and RACK space rental
• Backup and disaster recovery services

Main properties of the datacentre:

• Redundant local network and internet connectivity
• Redundant and modular UPS system with backup diesel generator
• Redundant and efficient cooling system with free-cooling capabilities
• Intrusion detection system, access control and video surveillance
• 24/7 security system with intervention team ready
• 24/7 monitoring and management of IT and supporting systems

Cloud Computing

Virtualiization platform is based on VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus which is the industry-leading server virtualization software. To ensure high-availability, security and flexibility your we offer a redundant and high-performance infrastructure to host your virtual servers and virtual datacentres.

Backup infrastructure is based on Veeam, which allows you to back up your entire servers on our primary and also secondary (offsite) location.

Services let you deploy a custom virtual datacentre or VPS with the configuration that suits you the best and offers you flexibility in upgrading and adapting your resources.

Features:

• High-availability and fault tolerance
• Daily backups
• Snapshots
• Remote console
• Multi-tier enterprise storage
• High-performance hosts
• Microsoft software
• Private media catalogue and server templates

Technical specification of the general-purpose cluster system:

• Peak Performance of 11.15 Petaflops
• 384.75 TB of main memory
  • 3,456 nodes:
  • 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 24C at 2.1 GHz
  • 216 nodes with 12x32 GB DDR4-2667 DIMMS (8GB/core)
  • 3240 nodes with 12x8 GB DDR4-2667 DIMMS (2GB/core)
• Interconnection networks:
  • 100Gb Intel Omni-Path Full-Fat Tree
  • 10Gb Ethernet
• Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

Access

To access the Arctur-2 HPC infrastructure, please contact .

More information

 https://arctur.si/hpc-and-cloud/

Name of hosting organisation and Location 

Arctur d.o.o., Industrijska cesta 1a, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia