At the Center for Collective Use “Siberian Ring Photon Source” (CCP “SKIF”), installation and testing of a computer complex based on domestic equipment of the RSK group of companies has been completed. The declared system performance reaches 390 Tflops.
The SKIF data center received 24 servers “RSC Tornado“, equipped with liquid cooling. Their total performance is at the level of 182 Tflops. In addition, two GPU servers are used, providing an additional 208 Tflops. The NRS complex also includes the necessary network nodes and storage systems (the configuration is not specified).
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The data center will store and process data obtained during experiments at seven stations of the first stage. These are the modules “Microfocus”, “Structural diagnostics”, “Fast processes”, “XAFS spectroscopy and magnetic dichroism”, “Diagnostics in the high-energy X-ray range”, “Electronic structure” and “Basic methods of synchrotron diagnostics for educational, research and innovative activities of students”. For example, the “Fast Processes” station is capable of X-ray imaging at a speed of up to 1 billion frames per second, which requires instant buffering and subsequent reconstruction of 3D models.
In general, the capacity of the new data center is designed to provide a full cycle of scientific work for 2–2.5 thousand researchers per year who will conduct experiments at the synchrotron. This is a ring accelerator with a perimeter of 158 m, in which beams of electrons, rotating at a speed close to the speed of light, reach an energy of 3 GeV.
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