Supercomputing Center

DIPC Supercomputation Center (SCC) is one of the referent scientific facilities of the Basque Country, the result of the strategic commitment led by the Basque institutions, with the Science, University and Innovation Department of the Basque Government at the forefront, in the framework of IKUR strategy.
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The Supercomputation Center offers computation service to all the scientific community from the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network. The widespread community of institutions that benefit from its use include the nine Basque Excellence Research Centers (BERC), the universities of the Basque Country, Centers of Cooperative Research Centers (CIC), health research centers and technology centers.

The Supercomputation Center hosts cutting edge equipment that currently provides continuous service to around 600 users, distributed between its two large infrastructures, the supercomputers Atlas and Hyperion, located in the DIPC facilities.

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With more than 14,908 cores and 150 TeraBytes of RAM, Hyperion is currently one of the most powerful supercomputers in the state. Hyperion's nodes are interconnected through a 200 Gbps Infiniband network that allows running parallel jobs, as well as with a 100 Gbps Ethernet network used to manage the supercomputer. Hyperion has several types of GPUs, including the following next-generation AI and high-performance computing (HPC) accelerators: 72 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, 18 NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPUs, and 1 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU. Its operating system is Rocky Linux.

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Atlas is a supercomputer consisting of 12,212 cores and 85 TeraBytes of RAM. Its low latency network, designed to run parallel jobs, is a mix of Infiniband FDR and EDR, at 56 and 100 Gbps speed respectively. This equipment is powered by 40 NVIDIA P40 graphics cards as well as 1 NVIDIA RTX 3090. The Atlas operating system is CentOS.

Research Lines

With Hyperion and Atlas in the forefront, the Supercomputing Center is a powerful scientific tool that adapts to the need of researchers. Our teams work simulating systems and phenomena in various fields in the avant-guard scientific research.

  • Advanced Materials
  • Formation of the Universe, galaxies and black holes
  • Brain functioning
  • Nanostructures and various molecules calculation
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Genetics
  • Quantum Computation
  • Elementary Particles Physics, such as neutrinos

Quantum Computation Services

DIPC Supercomputing Center has acquired a fundamental role within BasQ. This global strategy led by the Department of Education of the Basque Government aims to position the Basque Country as one of the leading quantum ecosystems in Southern Europe.

Currently, DIPC manages priority access to IBM Quantum Systems along with I2Basque academic research network, as well as to several emulators and real quantum computers available to the Basque scientific community.

General Services

The center's computing resources are operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In addition to access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems, the Supercomputing Center supports scientific applications, IT services, data storage and web hosting.