{"id":185,"date":"2015-07-10T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/hpc\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:44:22","slug":"the-birth-of-balena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/2015\/07\/10\/the-birth-of-balena\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Balena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJjn09N-90w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The above video shows the installation, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clustervision.com\">ClusterVision<\/a>, of the University of Bath's\u00a0newest High Performance Computing (HPC) system, Balena.<\/p>\n<p>The Balena HPC system is based on the Intel Xeon E5-2650v2 IvybridgeV2 processor and also consists of NVIDIA and AMD GPU accelerator cards and Intel Xeon Phi co-processor cards. <span style=\"color: #000000\">The system is capable of handling a single MPI job using 3,040 CPU cores. There are a range of memory configurations from 64GBs to 512GBs per compute node. It offers 220TBs of scratch storage based on the BeeGFS parallel file system. There are a range of software and applications available, as well as a suite of software developer tools. In the near future it will be able to provide a high-end remote visualisation service to the desktop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information about Balena and High Performance Computing at the University of Bath visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/hpc\">http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/hpc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Team HPC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The above video shows the installation, by ClusterVision, of the University of Bath's\u00a0newest High Performance Computing (HPC) system, Balena. The Balena HPC system is based on the Intel Xeon E5-2650v2 IvybridgeV2 processor and also consists of NVIDIA and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[49,6,137,94,182],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-hpc","tag-balena","tag-hpc","tag-installation","tag-news","tag-video"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd4PAv-2Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}