MUSICA

MUSICA (Multi-Site Computer Austria) is the latest addition to Austria's national supercomputing infrastructure. The system's compute resources are distributed across three locations: in Vienna, Innsbruck, and Linz.

The system comprises a total of 440 compute nodes, all featuring direct liquid cooling.

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VSC-5 is the latest addition to the Vienna Scientific Cluster infrastructure, supplied by Megware. The system comprises 1,540 AMD EPYC Milan processors and 98,560 cores (more than double of the VSC-4), and features a hardware partition of CPU and GPU nodes connected via Mellanox HDR infiniband (200 Gbit/s bandwidth).

The CPU partition of VSC-5 achieves a benchmark value (Rmax) of 2.31 PFlop/s and in addition the GPU partition delivers about 1 PFlop/s.

Details about VSC-5

At the time of its launch, VSC-4 was the most powerful supercomputer ever installed in Austria, reaching a performance (Rmax) of 2.7 PFlop/s, with the theoretical peak performance Rpeak being 3.7 PFlop/s. The system consists of 790 water cooled nodes (Lenovo SD650), each with two Intel Skylake Platinum 8174 processors with 24 cores, interconnected with 100 Gbit/s OmniPath.

VSC-4 was installed in summer 2019 at the Arsenal TU building (Objekt 214) in Vienna by EDV-Design.

Details about VSC-4               Press coverage on VSC-4

The EuroHPC system LEONARDO is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. LEONARDO provides a GPU partition (Booster) and a CPU partition (DCGP – Data-Centric General-Purpose). Austria is a partner in the consortium that has built the machine, and as such a part of its computing resources is reserved for Austrian users.

Austrian researchers can apply for compute time at LEONARDO via the national AURELEO Calls.

Details about LEONARDO      AURELEO Calls

VSC-3 retired in May 2021. Its extension VSC-3+ went out of service in October 2022.

VSC-3 was a throughput-oriented general-purpose Linux cluster with 864 compute nodes (in the VSC-3+ partition), several GPU partitions, and the bioinformatics nodes with extra large RAM.

VSC-3 was installed in summer 2014 and got a significant extension called VSC-3+ in June 2018.

Details about VSC-3               Press coverage on VSC-3

VSC-2 is retired, it went out of service by the end of December 2018.

VSC-2 was installed in May 2011 at the Arsenal TU building (Objekt 214) in Vienna by MEGWARE Computer.

It consisted of 1314 nodes, each with 2 processors (AMD Opteron 6132 HE, 2.2 GHz, 8 cores) with QDR InfiniBand.

Details about VSC-2               Press coverage on VSC-2

VSC-1 is retired, it went out of service by the end of March 2015.

VSC-1 was set up in 2009 with an investment of almost 2 million Euros. It was located in the Freihaus building of TU Wien and ranked 156th in the November 2009 TOP500 list.

Details about VSC-1               Press coverage on VSC-1