Nuredduna Computer Cluster
Nuredduna Computer System
Nuredduna System
The main tool for intensive calculations is the Nuredduna system intended for High Thoughput Computing.
Nuredduna has two parts:
- a cluster designed and build at IFISC using out-of-the-shelf components from the personal computer market which at the present has 250 computational cores and
- a grid cluster with 500 computational cores within the Grid-CSIC initiative to promote e-science.
Nuredduna is mantained by IFISC Computing Services Unit
Why Nuredduna?
Nuredduna is the Mediterranean counterpart of the anglosaxon myth on the warrior Beowulf. She is a fiction heroine in the poem "La deixa del geni grec" (1900) by the Majorcan writer Costa i Llobera. The character is inspired on a prehistoric epic story during the first invasions of the island of Mallorca by the greeks. Granddaughter of a Highest Priest, Nuredduna was the Sybil of a talayotic tribe in the caves of Arta. Unlike Beowulf's relying in his physical force, her strength was love. Giving her life to save Homero's, Nuredduna became the symbol of the union of Mallorca with the foreign greek civilization.
