LNEG-Lx-STE-HPC

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LNEG-Lx-STE-HPC

TA69 – LNEG-Lx-STE-HPC 

Location

Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, 22

1649-038 Lisboa,  Portugal 

Description

This is a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster with 96 computation cores, 768 GB of RAM, 32 TB for data storage and a 56 Gb/s Infiniband infrastructure communication for MPI computation among nodes yielding 4 TFlops computing capacity. Naturally, this resource is dependent on the applications' packages’ available or to be available. For now, however, it’s mainly devoted to concentrated solar power, namely thermal energy storage problems. The main services provided within the project:

  • Computer fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation
  • Simulation of transient systems (including CST plants and components)
  • Optical simulation of solar concentrating systems using ray-tracing

These services are based on existing commercial and open-source software such as an ANSYS Package for CFD, TRNSYS and Tonatiuh. Additionally, users may use their in-house developed software.
Services offered by the infrastructure:

  • HPC i) Thermal energy storage systems
  • HPC ii) Solar Thermal Systems designed for power production or for solar heat application in industrial processes (SHIP)
  • HPC iii) Optical simulation of solar concentrating systems.

Testing Capabilities

These are computer fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, transient system simulations, and optical simulations of solar concentrating systems, with a focus on concentrated solar power and thermal energy storage problems. The infrastructure includes a 96-core cluster with 768 GB of RAM, 32 TB of storage, and 4 TFlops computing capacity, supporting both commercial and user-developed software.

Technical Equipment

This includes 96 computation cores, 768 GB of RAM, 32 TB of data storage, a 56 Gb/s Infiniband infrastructure, and 4 TFlops computing capacity.

Additional information

Technology Readiness Level: 7 or above

Special considerations: N/A 

Technology clusters: CSP/STE, Energy Storage, Information and Communication Technologies

Website: http://www.lneg.pt

Availability: All year

Provision of tools to prepare data sets in a FAIR way:  Yes 

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