Leftraru´s high processing capacity will help enterprises in areas such as mining, energy, sustainability, environment and biomedicine, between other sectors.
Leftraru, the fastest supercomputer in Chile, located at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of Universidad de Chile opens its services to the industry needs. With its high processing capacity, will help enterprises in areas such as mining, energy, sustainability, environment and biomedicine, between others.
The new cluster of the National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC), which has 17 associate institutions, has a processing capacity of 50 teraflops, equivalent to around 25 thousand notebooks working at the same time. These characteristics positioned it as the second fastest supercomputer in Latin America according the Lartop 50 ranking, created by the initiative HPC Latam and maintained by Universidad de San Luis (Argentina).
Alejandro Jofré, CMM Director, explains that there’s multiple areas where Leftraru has applications. The mathematical engineer highlights those that have more impact on the national life, as it is the case with earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters: » If we incorporate this supercomputer to a high-speed data transmission photonic network and to sensors installed all across Chile, we could have, at last, an early- warning alert system that would let us react in time when these catastrophes occur».
“This infrastructure allows the modelling of high complexity problems and the managing of massive data (Big Data) in real time which has a significative impact on the optimization of industrial processes and the dynamic evaluation of its risks», points out Eduardo Vera, NLHPC Director.
This new equipment can perform experiments, compute data and make simulations in areas as different as genomic sequencing, pharmacological design,new materials creation, nanotechnology, astronomy, aeronautic design, software use for optimization, fleet scheduling, medicine, molecular simulation, the city’s traffic management, security, education and the health network provision chain, just to give a few examples.
Access to this equipment es completely free of charge to universities and research centers and scientific projects that demand a high computing capacity can access it. In the other hand, the project contemplates that a 15% of Leftraru´s computing capacity will be available to the private sector.
The laboratory receives financing from Conicyt´s Associative Research Program (PIA) and is located at the FCFM of Universidad de Chile’s Datacenter.
NLHPC Associate Institutions
Universidad de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Santiago, Universidad Católica del Norte, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Universidad de la Frontera, Universidad de La Serena, Universidad de Talca, Universidad de Antofagasta, Universidad Austral, Universidad de Concepción, Universidad del Bío-Bío, AURA Observatory Chile, Inria-Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Fundación Ciencia y Vida y REUNA.