Supporting scientific research in Spain and beyond

To accommodate ever-growing demand for its cluster from scientists across Europe, the Institute of Physics of Cantabria worked with Lenovo to deploy a brand-new HPC platform, powered by Lenovo ThinkSystem servers.

Customer Problem

When the Institute of Physics of Cantabria opened its cluster to researchers across Europe, it saw a significant increase in demand for its HPC resources.

Lenovo Solution

The organization replaced its existing cluster with high-performance Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and Lenovo storage solutions.

Business Impact

The new cluster boosts networking speed by a factor of five, enabling more than 300 researchers to run demanding HPC workloads for 60 research projects.

“It’s been a true pleasure to work with Lenovo to refresh our HPC cluster—they offer good technology, good support, and a good price.”

Ibán Cabrillo, Advanced Computing Resources Manager, Institute of Physics of Cantabria

Results

• ·       5x faster networking
• ·       50% increase in HPC compute resources
• ·       25% increase in cloud compute resources