Supercomputers/Systems/Navigator (LCA-UC)
Portugal · operational · hpc
Navigator (LCA-UC)
Also known as Navigator, Navigator+
Operated by LCA-UC at University of Coimbra (LCA) .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
- 5,216
- Power
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | NVIDIA Tesla V100 Accelerators CUDA (Volta GV100) · 5,120C · 1.53 GHz · 12 nm · 300 W 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU cards | NVIDIA | 8 reported | Reported | rnca.fccn.ptsdc4.skao.int |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPUs x86-64 · 12C · 2.7 GHz · 22 nm · 130 W 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2697v2 12-core 2.70 GHz nodes | Intel | - | Reported | rnca.fccn.pt |
| CPU | Intel Xeon Gold 6148 CPUs x86-64 · 20C · 2.4 GHz · 14 nm · 150 W 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6148 20-core 2.40 GHz nodes | Intel | - | Reported | rnca.fccn.pt |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR Interconnect Fat tree · 56 Gb/s per 4x port · About 1 microsecond InfiniBand FDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | rnca.fccn.pt |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand EDR Interconnect Fat tree · 100 Gb/s per 4x port · About 0.9 microseconds InfiniBand EDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | rnca.fccn.pt |
The read
The University of Coimbra's advanced-computing cluster, inaugurated in February 2019 in the Physics and Chemistry building according to the national network FCCN, which also reports a 2.17 million euro investment and 2021 upgrades to cooling and to the archiving and backup system. The RNCA page lists 192 nodes in three configurations, 3,936 plus 1,280 cores, 86 plus 161.2 TFlops of maximum processing capacity, 220 TB plus 1.27 PB of disk, InfiniBand FDR and EDR, and 8 Tesla V100 plus 2 A40 visualisation cards. The CPU families it names are Xeon E5-2697v2, Xeon Gold 6148 and, for some nodes, quad-socket Xeon Gold 6154. The SKA Observatory's partner page for LCA confirms V100 GPU nodes and a 72-core, 3 TB shared-memory system. The summed peak is not entered as a single FLOPS figure because the pages give it only as two numbers. Navigator is a PRACE-linked Tier-1 resource per the FCCN article. Other Portuguese national machines in the dataset are Deucalion.
Timeline
- 2019-02 First operational source
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-29 Added Navigator, the University of Coimbra's Tier-1 cluster in Portugal
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