The Spanish Supercomputing and Data Network (RES) was created in 2006 by the then Ministry of Education and Science as a response to the need of the Spanish scientific community for greater computing capacity and access to intensive computing resources, taking into account supercomputing resources as a decisive asset for the scientific and technological development of the country. From 2020, it complements supercomputing services with mass data storage services.
Main features
The RES is an infrastructure of supercomputers located in different locations, each of which contributes to the total processing power available to users of the different R&D groups.
The 14 supercomputers that make up the national network are:
- BSC-CNS Computing and Data Node
- Computer node University of Cantabria (UC)
- Computer and data node of the Instituto Astrophysique de Canarias (IAC)
- Computing and data node of the University of Valencia (UV)
- Computing and data node of the University of Malaga (UMA)
- Computing and data node of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR)
- Computer and data node of the Center of Supercomputing of Castilla y León (SCAYLE).
- Computing node of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM)
- Computing and Data Node of Cents
- CESGA Computing and Data Node
- CSUC Computing and Data Node
- NASERTIC Computing Node
- CIEMAT Computing Node
- PIC Data Node
