About
INESC TEC’s CLOUDinha Laboratory provides computational support to research and development activities of INESC TEC and University of Minho, providing bare metal, virtualization, and security features such as trusted hardware.
The cluster is composed of different generations of hardware namely, Haswell, Kaby Lake, Comet Lake, Coffee Lake and Raptor Lake. It is currently composed of 106 micro-ATX machines based on commodity hardware with Intel Core i3,i5, and i9 CPUs, 8GB, 16 GB, and 64GB of memory, and heterogeneous storage hardware including HDDs, SSDs, and NVMe devices. The machines are connected through either a 1 Gb or 10 Gb network.
In addition to these, the cluster has 4 rack servers based on Intel Xeon hardware, with 32, 64GB, 192GB of memory, and heterogeneous storage hardware including SSDs, NVMe, and persistent memory devices. They are connected through either a 1 Gb or 10 Gb network, while some of them also have programmable network capabilities (DPDK).
The heterogeneous hardware nature of the cluster is important for supporting different research projects that may require specific hardware features (e.g., different storage or network technologies, access to trusted hardware capabilities).
Location: UMinho Campus, Braga
