Research Infrastructure

Computing resources

HPC Cluster Aether

The LAMOS group is equipped with an HPC cluster, called Aether. The cluster is based on Intel's Broadwell architecture and was installed in November 2016.

Specifications:

  • 56 compute nodes
  • dual Intel Xeon E5-2690v4 processors (2.6 GHz, 14 cores)
  • 256 GB (16 nodes) / 128 GB (40 nodes) RAM
  • Intel Omni-Path networking fabric
  • 1.25 PB BeeGFS parallel storage

Access

We are happy to grant access to any interested person / working group at the University of Bremen, especially (but not limited to) MARUM and the natural sciences faculty (FB1). In order to get access, please contact the LAMOS-IT group via email (needs JavaScript enabled).

IMPACT Infrastructure


LAMOS group, in collaboration with the DOAS group of IUP, developed an in-house prototype instrument, used in air-pollution studies. The novel imaging-DOAS (differential optical absorption spectroscopy) instrument IMPACT (Imaging MaPper for AtmospheriC observaTions, see fig. below) provides full-azimuthal pointing (360∘) with a large vertical coverage (∼41∘). Complete panoramic scans are acquired at a temporal resolution of ∼15 min, enabling the retrieval of NO2 vertical profiles over the entire panorama around the measurement site. This instrument has participated in two high visibility international campaigns (CINDI & AQABA).

References

  • Peters, E., Ostendorf, M., Bösch, T., Seyler, A., Schönhardt, A., Schreier, S., Wittrock, F., Richter, A., Vrekoussis, M., Burrows, JP (2019): Full-azimuthal imaging-DOAS observations of NO2 during CINDI-2, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 4171–4190, 2019. doi:10.5194/amt-12-4171-2019.
  • Master thesis by Mareike Ostendorf