A new computing cluster UMKA has been added to the national grid network
06.11.2025
The Republican Shared-Use Supercomputer Center of the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is a key link in the development of the national high-performance computing infrastructure. The center integrates supercomputer resources created under the Union State programs SKIF, SKIF-GRID, SKIF-NEDRA, and others, supporting scientific, technical, and applied tasks of varying complexity.
On October 3, 2025, the new UMKA UNICORE site was integrated into the national grid infrastructure of the Republic of Belarus. It utilizes 24 84-core nodes (a total of 2016 processor cores) for computing power. The system's peak performance in double-precision FP64 operations reaches 120 teraflops (0.12 PFlops).
Each cluster node is equipped with an AMD EPYC 9634 processor (84 cores), 256 to 1536 GB of RAM, and is connected to high-speed InfiniBand HDR (200 Gbps) networks for MPI exchange and InfiniBand FDR10 (40 Gbps) for I/O operations. Linux Fedora 42 is used as the system software, and the task launch and visualization technology is unified across all computing systems in the supercomputer center.
The UMKA cluster is designed to solve resource-intensive, tightly coupled problems requiring high performance and scalability. Its capabilities open up broad prospects for researchers across various laboratories and departments of the institute—from physical modeling and machine learning to big data analysis and Earth remote sensing image processing.
For example, at the Laboratory for Synthesis of Technical Systems of the Joint Institute for Informatics and Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the cluster is already being used to model thermodynamic processes in the design of advanced refrigeration equipment, simulate the dynamics of vapor-phase and beam epitaxy for the microelectronics industry, and supercomputer modeling of the processes of growing and cutting single-crystal silicon. This range of applications can be expanded to include the synthesis of new materials with predetermined properties.
The commissioning of the UMKA cluster marks an important step in expanding the computing capabilities of the supercomputer center and developing Belarus's national grid infrastructure.
On October 3, 2025, the new UMKA UNICORE site was integrated into the national grid infrastructure of the Republic of Belarus. It utilizes 24 84-core nodes (a total of 2016 processor cores) for computing power. The system's peak performance in double-precision FP64 operations reaches 120 teraflops (0.12 PFlops).
Each cluster node is equipped with an AMD EPYC 9634 processor (84 cores), 256 to 1536 GB of RAM, and is connected to high-speed InfiniBand HDR (200 Gbps) networks for MPI exchange and InfiniBand FDR10 (40 Gbps) for I/O operations. Linux Fedora 42 is used as the system software, and the task launch and visualization technology is unified across all computing systems in the supercomputer center.
The UMKA cluster is designed to solve resource-intensive, tightly coupled problems requiring high performance and scalability. Its capabilities open up broad prospects for researchers across various laboratories and departments of the institute—from physical modeling and machine learning to big data analysis and Earth remote sensing image processing.
For example, at the Laboratory for Synthesis of Technical Systems of the Joint Institute for Informatics and Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the cluster is already being used to model thermodynamic processes in the design of advanced refrigeration equipment, simulate the dynamics of vapor-phase and beam epitaxy for the microelectronics industry, and supercomputer modeling of the processes of growing and cutting single-crystal silicon. This range of applications can be expanded to include the synthesis of new materials with predetermined properties.
The commissioning of the UMKA cluster marks an important step in expanding the computing capabilities of the supercomputer center and developing Belarus's national grid infrastructure.