Brazilian federal universities choose Bull supercomputers to host high-performance computing (HPC) applications for the “Brazil National System”

The Brazilian government has acquired two Bull supercomputers for their federal universities to form part of the National System of High-Performance Processing (Sinapad), encompassing eight supercomputers across Brazil.

The Bull’s supercomputers – delivering some 6.1 teraflops of power, representing 6 thousand billion operations per second – will be deployed at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) and Universidade Federal do Ceará(UFCE).

The supercomputers will be used for scientific research in the areas of:

• Simulations of petroleum reservoirs
• Computational chemistry projects
• Oceanographic research
• Water resources and simulations of the impact of rain on rivers
• Visualization projects
• Studies on semi-arid climates
• Biology and genome projects.

Each cluster is composed of 72 Bull NovaScale® servers running under Linux®, each equipped with two Intel® Xeon® quad-core processors (making a total of 576 processing cores). The cluster has a total storage capacity of 45 terabytes as well as 1 terabyte RAM.