page_title: FinisTerrae
section_title: FinisTerrae I
hierarchical_section_title: FinisTerrae / Architecture / FinisTerrae I
caption_attribution_description: Español: Nodos HP-SFS storage system
context_page_description: Finisterrae was the 100th supercomputer in Top500 ranking in November 2007. Running at 12.97 teraFLOPS, it would rank at position 258 on the list as of June 2008. It is also the third most powerful supercomputer in Spain. It is located in Galicia.
  This project is promoted by the Xunta de Galicia and the Spanish National Research Council. It was founded in 1993 to serve as a platform to foster scientific innovation and invest in Research and Development.
  It is estimated that the base project will be completed in 2010. It is expected to reach the TOP10 of the most powerful supercomputers in the world when it reaches full capacity. The supercomputer is physically hosted at CESGA.
context_section_description: FinisTerrae supercomputer, located in CESGA is an integrated system by shared-memory nodes with and SMP NUMA architecture.
  FinisTerrae is composed of 144 computational nodes:
  142 hp (106 kW) HP Integrity rx7640 nodes with 16 Itanium Montvale cores and 128 GB memory each one
  1 hp (0.75 kW) Integrity Superdome node, with 128 Itanium Montvale cores and 1024 GB memory
  1 hp (0.75 kW) Integrity Superdome node, with 128 Itanium 2 cores and 384 GB memory
  A hierarchic storing system with:
  22 nodes for storing management with 96 processing cores
  The storage is connected to 72 cabins connected to 864 SATA disks, managed  by Lustre. Backups are stored on tapes which provide 2.200.000 GB.
  An interconnecting network between Infiniband 4x DDR at 20 Gbit/s nodes, providing 16 Gbit/s of effective bandwidth
  An external management Gigabit Ethernet network
  The nodes user SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the operating system. This operating system helped save an important amount of money when compared to other non-free options.
  FinisTerrae includes open software and standard like Linux, Lustre, Grid Engine and Globus.
  System also has next compilators, libraries and development tools: Intel C/C and Fortran, Intel MKL, Vtune, HP-MPI and HP UPC.
caption: HP-SFS storage system nodes (Finisterrae I)
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