Snellius is a cluster of heterogeneous nodes built by Lenovo, containing predominantly AMD technology, with capabilities for high performance computing (parallel, symmetric multiprocessing), data-processing, and machine learning. The system also has several system-specific storage resources, that are geared towards supporting the various types of computing.
The system has a peak performance of 14 petaflop/s, making it the most powerful high-performance computing system in the Netherlands.
Snellius is accessible at the address:
snellius.surf.nl
Virtual 3D tour
A high-level virtual 3D tour of the system, describing phasing, layout and technical features, can be found here. It also shows some research examples.
Mathematician Willebrord Snel van Royen
Willebrord Snel van Royen (Leiden, 1580-1626, shown right), also known by his Latin name Snellius, was a Dutch mathematician and physicist, humanist, linguist and astronomer. He was professor of mathematics at Leiden University from 1613 until his death in 1626.
He is best known for Snell's law, named after him, which indicates how light rays are broken when light passes through different materials (e.g. from air to glass, as in the image to the right).
