HPC Cluster "Matrix"

OPH hosts a High Performance Computing cluster called "Matrix" with about 5700 virtual cores  with a minimum of 4 GB RAM/core,  equipped with 1.5 PB of disk storage space. The OPH cluster Matrix is used both for DIFA research activities and innovative teaching courses.

More specifically, the Matrix computing cluster features:

• 42 heterogeneous CPU compute nodes featuring a variety of multi-core processors with hyperthreading, with a minimum of 8 GB per physical core, 4 GB per thread
• 4 GPU nodes
• Infiniband Mellanox 100 Gb/s low-latency connection switch
• 2 disk storage areas for both long-term data preservation (1.3 PB) and fast I/O interface with the compute nodes (280 TB)
• A backed-up storage area (22 TB) for users home and shared resources

Since February 2025 the Matrix HPC cluster is hosted in the UniBo Data Center at the Navile Campus.

The daily usage of the Matrix HPC cluster resources is monitored in real time and can be checked at this public web page