Image ColumbiaSupercomputer NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility.jpg thumb right 290px The ColumbiaSupercomputer at NASA s Advanced Supercomputing Facility at Ames Research Center Named in honor of the crew who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Columbia disaster , Columbia is a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics for NASA . Its main purpose was to simulate the violent collision and merger of spiral galaxies that lead to the formation of elliptical galaxies. It is connected to the NASA Research and Engineering Network and was installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility in 2004. According to the TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers, it entered the list in November 2004 at position 2, ref cite web url http www.top500.org system ranking 7288 title November 2006 TOP500 Supercomputing Sites publisher TOP500 accessdate 2007 05 22 ref running at 51.87 FLOPS teraflops , or 51.87 trillion floating point calculations per second. By June 2007 it had dropped to position 13, and by June 2008 was at position 25. ref http www.top500.org list 2008 06 100 TOP500 List June 2008 1 100 TOP500 Supercomputing Sites Bot generated title ref It is composed of twenty Altix SGI ... The SGI Altix platform was selected due to a positive experience with Kalpana supercomputer Kalpana , a single Altix 512 CPU system operated by NASA Ames which was integrated into the Columbiasupercomputer ... Ethernet and multiple 1 gigabit Ethernet nodes. References reflist External links commons Columbiasupercomputer http www.nas.nasa.gov About Projects Columbia columbia.html NASA Columbia homepage ... Category One of a kind computers super compu stub ar de ColumbiaSupercomputer fr Columbia superordinateur is Columbia ofurt lva it Columbiasupercomputer ja Columbia pl Columbia komputer fi Columbia supertietokone ru Columbia ... petabytes of archive storage. ref name facts cite web date 2007 01 31 title Columbia System Facts ... more details
Other uses Image IBM Blue Gene P supercomputer.jpg 300px thumb The Blue Gene P supercomputer at Argonne ... 03.ibm.com press us en pressrelease 21791.wss IBM Blue gene announcement ref A supercomputer is a computer ... Hu 2009 ISBN pages 70 72 ref The CDC 6600 , released in 1964, is generally considered the first supercomputer ... page 172 http books.google.com books?id J46GinHakmkC&pg PA172&dq history of supercomputer cdc ... books?id n3Xn7jMx1RYC&pg PA1489&dq history of supercomputer cdc 6600&hl en&ei nt8cTo RFc2r gaDiPHLCA&sa ... Wind Tunnel supercomputer used 166 vector processors to gain the top spot in 1994 with a peak ... Hardware and architecture Main Supercomputer architecture Parallel computer hardware Image BlueGeneL ... holding many processors Approaches to supercomputer architecture have taken dramatic turns since the earliest systems were introduced in the 1960s. Early supercomputer architectures pioneered by Seymour ... for most centralized supercomputers. ref name TH1 The TianHe 1A Supercomputer Its Hardware and Software ... The Supermen Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer by Charles ... ground and in 2012 the Jaguar supercomputer was transformed into Titan supercomputer Titan by replacing CPUs with GPUs. ref name PC Cray s Titan Supercomputer for ORNL Could Be World s Fastest by Damon ... and heat management see also Computer cooling Green 500 A typical supercomputer consumes large amounts ... title NVIDIA Tesla GPU s Power World s Fastest Supercomputer publisher Nvidia date 29 October 2010 ref .... ref http www.hpcwire.com hpcwire 2010 07 02 ibm hot water cooled supercomputer goes live at eth ... and system management Operating systems Main Supercomputer operating systems File JaguarXT5.jpg thumb 240px The Jaguar supercomputer Jaguar XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Labs Since the end of the 20th century, supercomputer operating systems have undergone major transformations, as sea changes have taken place in supercomputer architecture . ref name Padua426 ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Kalpana is a supercomputer at NASA s Ames Research Center operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division NAS . It is named in honor of the late astronaut Kalpana Chawla , who was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Columbia disaster . It was dedicated on May 12, 2004. The computer is a single Silicon Graphics SGI Altix Altix 3000 , with 512 Itanium 2 central processing unit processor s. Kalpana was purchased in November 2003 to work on computational fluid dynamics problems for Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL , National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR , and the ECCO ECCO Consortium . It was the first single Linux Kernel computer science kernel 512 processor computer. From July 2004 Kalpana was integrated, as the first node, into the 20 node Columbiasupercomputer Project Columbiasupercomputer. DEFAULTSORT Kalpana Supercomputer Category Supercomputers ... more details
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The SX 3 supercomputer family was developed by NEC Corporation in Japan and announced in April l989. ref Computing methods in applied sciences and engineering by R. Glowinski, A. Lichnewsky ISBN 0898712645 page 353 360 ref The SX 3 44R became the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1990. See also Supercomputing in Japan References Reflist Category supercomputers super compu stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Three firms have held, simultaneously, the name Supercomputer Systems or Supercomputing Systems . The first was founded by Steve Chen computer engineer Steve Chen , architect of the Cray X MP and Cray Y MP . The second was based in San Diego, California , USA . The third still exists in Zurich, Switzerland . SSI 1 Supercomputer Systems, Inc., Eau Claire, Wisconsin , S. Chen SSI 2 Supercomputer Systems, Inc., San Diego, California SSI 3 Supercomputing Systems, AG, Zurich, CH See also Supercomputer Category Computer companies compu company stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Thunderbird is a supercomputer computer cluster cluster at Sandia National Laboratories . The system was built by Dell, Inc. . It is a cluster of 4,480 dual Xeon servers. It can do 60 teraflop s and according to the TOP500 list, in November 2006 it was the sixth most powerful supercomputer in the world and has the lowest cost per teraflops. As of 2007 11 it is no longer in the top ten. External links http www.sandia.gov news resources releases 2006 thunderbird.html Thunderbird Linux Cluster ranks 6th in Top500 supercomputing Race DEFAULTSORT Thunderbird Supercomputer Category Supercomputers super compu stub ... more details
articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com 2007 11 14 news 27686717 1 supercomputer computational research laboratories crl newspaper The Economics Times title Tata s supercomputer Eka is fastest in Asia ... 2007 accessdate 16 September 2007 ref Legacy Emulators Sources Website EKA is a supercomputer built ... 2007 11 14 news 27686717 1 supercomputer computational research laboratories crl newspaper The Economics Times title Tata s supercomputer Eka is fastest in Asia date 14 November 2007 ... www.business standard.com india news supercomputer another feather in tatas 60 cap 304236 title Supercomputer .... ref name bsstd1 cite news url http www.business standard.com india news supercomputer another feather in tatas 60 cap 304236 title Supercomputer another feather in Tatas cap date 14 November 2007 accessdate 16 September ref Ranking history At the time of its unveiling, it was the 4th fastest supercomputer ... india news supercomputer another feather in tatas 60 cap 304236 title Supercomputer another feather ... EKA Ranking History accessdate 16 september 2011 ref . See also SAGA 220 , a 220 TeraFLOPS supercomputer ... Supercomputer list http www.crlindia.com Computational Research Laboratories Category Supercomputers Category Information technology in India de EKA Supercomputer ml ru EKA ... more details
File Pleiades supercomputer.jpg thumb 275px The entire Pleiades supercomputer Pleiades is a petascale supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics SGI at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California . as of 2011 06 , it was the TOP500 world s seventh fastest computer ref http www.nas.nasa.gov News Releases 2009 11 18 09.html NASA SUPERCOMPUTER RANKS AMONG WORLD S FASTEST , NAS NASA, 18 Nov 2009. ref with a peak performance of more than 970 FLOPS teraflops . After further extensions, Pleiades is scheduled to reach 10 petaflops in 2012. ref http www.h online.com newsticker news item NASA collaborates with Intel and SGI on forthcoming petaflops super computers 735127.html NASA collaborates with Intel and SGI on forthcoming petaflops super computers , Heise Online, 9 May 2008. ref Gallery center gallery widths 200 File Pleiades ribbon cutting ceremony.jpg Completion of the Pleiades system in December 2008 File Pleiades two row.jpg Two rows of compute cabinets that make up the 100 cabinet Pleiades system gallery center See also portalbox Computer Science Information technology Computer science Computing References Reflist http www.nas.nasa.gov Resources Systems pleiades.html Pleiades Supercomputer. http www.nas.nasa.gov NASA . Accessed July 2011. External links commons Pleiades supercomputer Category Supercomputers Category One of a kind computers super compu stub fr Pleiades superordinateur it Pleiades ja Pleiades pl Pleiades komputer ... more details
The Yellowstone is the name of the new petascale supercomputing resource in the National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center NWSC in Cheyenne, Wyoming with production computing operations expected to begin in the summer of 2012. Yellowstone will be an IBM iDataPlex supercomputer system, consisting of 4,662 nodes, each with two Intel Sandy Bridge EP processors, for a total of 74,592 processor cores and 149.2 terabytes of memory. Nodes will be connected using a Mellanox FDR InfiniBand full fat tree. Nodes will run Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6. The central file and data storage resource, called GLADE, will consist of file system servers and storage devices that will be linked to the supercomputer systems and eventually provide 16.42 petabytes of usable disk space. The Yellowstone system features 9.7 million times the computational rate, 3.4 million times the disk capacity, and 19 million times the central memory size of one of the world s first supercomputers, the Cray 1 A, which supported NCAR s computational science between 1977 and 1989. ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2011 11 10 ncar yellowstone super ibm ref ref http www 03.ibm.com press us en pressrelease 35946.wss ref ref http www.cesm.ucar.edu management SSC Presentations yellowstone.pdf ref References references External links Commons category Yellowstone Supercomputer http www2.cisl.ucar.edu resources yellowstone Yellowstone Petascale computing for the atmospheric sciences Category Supercomputers ... more details
Titan is a 20 petaflop supercomputer developed by Cray , Inc. and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory . ref name PC Cray s Titan Supercomputer for ORNL Could Be World s Fastest by Damon Poeter PC Magazine, October 11, 2011 http www.pcmag.com article2 0,2817,2394515,00.asp ref Titan is a transformation of the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge to use GPU s rather than CPUs. ref GPUs Will Morph ORNL s Jaguar Into 20 Petaflop Titan by Michael Feldman HPC Wire, Oct 11, 2011 http www.hpcwire.com hpcwire 2011 10 11 gpus will morph ornl s jaguar into 20 petaflop titan.html ref ref name TitanReg Oak Ridge changes Jaguar s spots from CPUs to GPUs by Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register Oct 11, 2011 http www.theregister.co.uk 2011 10 11 oak ridge cray nvidia titan ref Titan was announced in October 2011 and is expected to become operational in 2012. Titan is a hybrid system, combining AMD Opteron processors with GeForce 600 Series Nvidia GeForce 600 Kepler GPU s. ref name PC The project will at first replace the Cray XT5 blade server compute blade s with Cray XK6 blades which include Opteron CPUs and Nvidia Tesla Tesla GPUs. In the second phase 18,000 additional Tesla GPUs will be used. ref name PC According to Cray, the overall development costs will be about 97 million. ref name PC References Reflist Category Supercomputers Computing stub ... more details
ref improve date April 2012 Cleanup date October 2007 A personal supercomputer PSC is a computer built for the demand of a powerful computer system. On the civil basis, PSCs are typically built by the user. However government computers have been built by contract companies and or governmental experts. Although considerably more expensive than a personal computer , PSCs are still affordable by many people. A few of them like TYANPSC which uses 40 Xeon processors helps 256 gigaflops of data execution per second. Technical advances continue to make personal supercomputers more affordable and powerful. Personal supercomputing is still in its infancy. A common way of building a PSC is syncing several computers with fast computer network networking commonly dual gigabit Ethernet switching per processor linked by a gigabit network switch. Some PSCs ref cite web first Priya last Ganapati url http www.wired.com gadgetlab 2009 08 personal supercomputers title Personal Supercomputers Promise Teraflops on Your Desk publisher Wired.com date August 3, 2009 accessdate 2011 07 08 ref use clustered GPUs . Applications They can be used in medical applications for processing brain and body scans, resulting in faster diagnosis. ref cite web last Wardrop first Murray url http www.telegraph.co.uk technology 3564435 Worlds first personal supercomputer unveiled.html title World s first personal supercomputer unveiled publisher Telegraph date 2008 12 05 accessdate 2011 07 08 ref Examples Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer SGI Octane Cray CX1 TyanPSC References Reflist Category Classes of computers compu stub ru ... more details
Orphan date March 2012 Kraken is a Cray XT5 supercomputer that entered into full production mode on February 2, 2009. It is owned and operated by the University of Tennessee . As of November 2010, Kraken is the 8th fastest computer in the world and the fastest academic computer in the world. It is housed in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . File Krakenresized.jpg thumb right 360x180px History The eventual creation of the Kraken Supercomputer began in 1991 with the establishment of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences JICS the institute is a joint venture between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is funded by the Department of Energy, and the JICS is one of the only state owned buildings ever built on the campus of a national laboratory. The main goals of the JICS are to create ... a 65 Million grant to build and operate a supercomputer in order to aid public research in academia .... The supercomputer would be maintained at ORNL by the National Institute for Computational Sciences ... Supercomputer Kraken Officially Up and Running . 2 March 2009. The University of Tennessee. Retrieved 22 May 20011. ref In late 2009 Kraken became only the fourth supercomputer ever to perform a PetaFLOP ... s most powerful supercomputers at 3rd place. Kraken was also the most powerful supercomputer operated ... to the 8th place on the list of most powerful supercomputers but was still the most powerful supercomputer ... www.tennessee.edu media releases 03022009 kraken.html UT Supercomputer Kraken Officially Up and Running ... 11 12 supercomputer top500 rankings released kraken top 10 Supercomputer TOP500 Rankings Released ... www.nics.tennessee.edu uts kraken supercomputer named worlds sixth fastest UT s Kraken Supercomputer ... 22 May 2011. 10. http www.hpcwire.com hpcwire 2009 10 06 uts kraken supercomputer first academic computer to break petascale.html UT s Kraken Supercomputer First Academic Computer to Break Petascale ... more details
refimprove date December 2011 disputed date December 2011 Bluefire Supercomputer was installed in May 2008 by the National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR . It is an IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth s climate. The supercomputer, known as a IBM Power Systems Power 575 Hydro Cluster, is the first in a highly energy efficient class of machines to be shipped anywhere in the world. Usage Scientists at NCAR, and across the country, use the new system to accelerate research into climate change , including future patterns of Precipitation meteorology precipitation and drought around the world, changes to agriculture and growing seasons, and the complex influence of global warming on hurricane s. Researchers also use it to improve weather forecasting models so society can better anticipate where and when dangerous storm s may strike. Performance Named Bluefire, the new supercomputer has a peak speed of more than 76 teraflops 76 trillion floating point operations per second . When fully operational, it is expected to rank among the 25 most powerful supercomputers in the world and will more than triple NCAR s sustained computing capacity. ICESS Bluefire is the second phase of a system called the Integrated Computing Environment for Scientific Simulation ICESS at NCAR. The first phase was called Blueice. ref http www.cisl.ucar.edu computers gallery ibm blueice.jsp ref After undergoing acceptance testing, Bluefire will begin full scale operations in August. Bluefire, replaced three supercomputers with an aggregate peak speed of 20 teraflop s, will provide supercomputing support for researchers at NCAR and other organizations through 2011 12. Hardware An IBM Power 575 supercomputer, Bluefire houses the new POWER6 microprocessor , which has a clock speed of 4.7 gigahertz . The system consists of 4,064 processors, 12 terabytes of memory, and 150 terabytes of DS4800 disk storage. Cooling system Bluefire relies on a Water cooling ... more details
The Tsubame supercomputer operates at the GSIC Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. It has a peak of 2,288 FLOPS Tflops and in June 2011 ranked 5th in the world. ref http www.hpcwire.com hpcwire 2011 05 05 tokyo institute of technology to add cula library to tsubame 2 0.html HPCWire May 2011 ref It was developed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in collaboration with NEC and HP , and has 1,400 nodes using both HP Proliant and NVIDIA Tesla processors. ref Hui Pan Research Initiatives with HP Servers , Gigabit ATM Newsletter, December 2010, page 11 ref See also portalbox Computer Science Information technology Supercomputing in Japan References Reflist Category Supercomputers ja TSUBAME zh TSUBAME ... more details
Steele is a supercomputer installed at Purdue University on May 5, 2008. The high performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue ITaP , the university s central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Coates supercomputer Coates built in 2009, Rossmann built in 2010, and Hansen and Carter built in 2011. Steele was the largest campus supercomputer in the Big Ten Conference Big Ten outside a national center when built. It ranked 104th on the November 2008 TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. Hardware Steele consists of 893 64 bit, 8 core Dell PowerEdge 1950 and nine 64 bit, 8 core Dell PowerEdge 2950 systems with various combinations of 16 32 gigabytes RAM, 160 GB to 2 terabytes of disk, and Gigabit Ethernet 1GigE and SDR InfiniBand local to each node. The cluster has a theoretical peak performance of more than 60 FLOPS teraflops . Steele and its 7,216 cores replaced the Purdue Lear cluster supercomputer which had 1,024 cores but was substantially slower. Steele is primarily networked utilizing a Foundry Networks BigIron RX 16 switch with a Tyco MRJ 21 wiring system delivering over 900 non blocking gigabit connections and eight 10 gigabit uplinks. Software Steele nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 RHEL5.6 and use Portable Batch System Professional 10.4.6 PBSPro 10.4.6 for resource and job management. The cluster also has compilers and scientific programming libraries installed. Construction Steele was built in four hours on May 5, 2008, by a team of 200 Purdue computer technicians and volunteers, including four volunteers from rabid in state athletic rival Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University . The cluster ran 1,400 science and engineering jobs by lunchtime. In 2010, Steele was moved to an HP POD Performance optimized Data Center , a self contained, modular, Modular data center shipping container ... data center. Funding The Steele supercomputer and Purdue s other clusters are part of the Purdue ... more details
File Jade CINES.jpg thumb 300px A Silicon Graphics SGI Altix supercomputer with 23,000 processors at the National Computer Center for Higher Education France CINES facility in France Approaches to supercomputer .... Early supercomputer architectures pioneered by Seymour Cray relied on compact innovative designs ... to his design philosophy and has continued to be a key issue in supercomputer architectures, e.g. ... of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer by Charles J. Murray 1997 ISBN 0 ... 85233 599 1 pages 201 202 ref ref Varadarajan, S. System X building the Virginia Tech supercomputer ... 2010 11 22 ibm blue gene q super The Register November 22, 2010 ref The heat from the Aquasar supercomputer ... water cooled supercomputer goes live at eth zurich.html HPC Wire July 2, 2010 ref ref http news.cnet.com 8301 11128 3 20004543 54.html CNet May 10, 2010 ref The heat density generated by a supercomputer ... in a supercomputer grows, failure rate component failure rate begins to become a serious issue. If a supercomputer uses thousands of nodes, each of which may fail once per year on the average ..., GPUs are gaining ground and in 2012 the Jaguar supercomputer was transformed into Titan supercomputer Titan by replacing CPUs with GPUs. ref name PC Cray s Titan Supercomputer for ORNL Could Be World ... titan ref As the number of independent processors in a supercomputer increases, the way they access ... on a supercomputer becomes a challenge. A number of approaches may be used to achieve this goal ..., demanding supercomputer applications such as Numerical weather prediction weather simulations or computational ... Cray XE6 racks.jpg thumb A person walking between the racks of a Cray XE6 supercomputer The air cooled IBM Blue Gene supercomputer architecture trades processor speed for low power consumption so ... of World s Fastest, Most Energy Efficient Supercomputer date 2007 06 27 accessdate 2011 12 24 ... Kc M Yokokawa et al The K computer Japanese next generation supercomputer development project http ... more details
Shaheen consists primarily of a 16 rack IBM Blue gene Blue Gene.2FP Blue Gene P supercomputer owned and operated by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology KAUST . Built in partnership with IBM, Shaheen is intended to enable KAUST Faculty and Partners to research both large and small scale projects, from inception to realization. Image with unknown copyright status removed Image Shaheen logo final Convert.jpg right Shaheen, named after the Shaheen Peregrine Falcon , is the largest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East ref name b cite web title Michael Feldman, HPC Wire, Saudi Arabia Buys Some Big Iron, October 1, 2008 url http www.kaust.edu.sa pdf in the news Reuters on Supercomputer.pdf accessdate 2009 03 13 ref and is intended to grow into a petascale facility by the year 2011, ref name c cite web title Patrick Thibodaux, Computer World, Saudi Arabia unveils grand supercomputer ambitions, September 22, 2008 url http www.kaust.edu.sa pdf in the news Reuters on Supercomputer.pdf accessdate 2009 03 13 ref Originally built at IBM s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Shaheen was moved to KAUST in mid 2009. ref name c The father of Shaheen is Majid Alghaslan http www.youtube.com watch?v SC sYy99wgg , KAUST s founding interim chief information officer and the University s leader in the acquisition, design, and development of the Shaheen supercomputer. Majid was part of the executive founding team for the University and the person who also named the machine http www.reuters.com article scienceNews idUSTRE49I0V520081020 Systems Shaheen includes the following functional elements 16 racks of Blue Gene P, having a peak performance of 222 Teraflops 128 IBM IBM System x 3550 Xeon nodes, having a peak performance of 12 Teraflops Performance Shaheen s performance and computing capabilities include ref http www 03.ibm.com press us ... of Syria, Iran, Sudan, Cuba, and North Korea from access to the supercomputer. Furthermore, Tier ... more details
ref In 2012 the Jaguar was transformed into Titan supercomputer Titan by replacing CPUs with GPU s. ref name PC Cray s Titan Supercomputer for ORNL Could Be World s Fastest by Damon Poeter PC Magazine ... World s most powerful supercomputer years November 2009 October 2010 s aft after Tianhe 1A ... more details
Coates is a supercomputer installed at Purdue University on July 21, 2009. The high performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue ITaP , the university s central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Steele supercomputer Steele built in 2008, Rossmann built in 2010, and Hansen and Carter built in 2011. Coates was the largest campus supercomputer in the Big Ten Conference Big Ten outside a national center when built. It was the first native 10 Gigabit Ethernet 10GigE cluster to be ranked in the TOP500 and placed 102nd on the June 2010 list. ref cite press release title Purdue s Coates Cluster Achieves First Ever Top 500 Supercomputer Ranking for 10Gb Ethernet date July 14, 2010 url http www.chelsio.com press room purduersquos coates cluster achieves first ever top 500 supercomputer ranking for 10gb ethernet 1279054800 ref Hardware The Coates cluster consists of 982 64 bit, 8 core HP Proliant DL165 G5p and 11 64 bit, 16 core HP Proliant DL585 G5 systems using Advanced Micro Devices AMD 2380 and AMD 8380 processors with various combinations of 16 128 gigabytes of RAM, 500 GB to 2 terabytes of disk and 10 Gigabit Ethernet 10GigE local to each node. Coates uses Cisco and Chelsio network equipment. ref name ccs cite web url http www.cisco.com en US solutions collateral ns340 ns517 ns224 case study c36 578954.html title Case Study Purdue University Builds High Performance Computing Cluster publisher Cisco, 2010 ref The cluster computing cluster s node networking node s are arrayed in five logical sub clusters each with different memory and storage configurations designed to meet the varying needs of the researchers ... in a single morning. The process was first used for the Steele cluster in 2008. Funding The Coates supercomputer ... detail.cfm?NewsId 1949 title Encore to ITaP s first supercomputer barn raising is even better than the original ... Coates Supercomputer Category Supercomputers Category Purdue University ... more details
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Orphan date February 2009 The Blue Mountain supercomputer was a supercomputer designed to run simulations for the United States National Nuclear Security Administration s Advanced Simulation and Computing program. It is capable of 3.1 Orders of magnitude numbers 1012 trillion operations per second. In June 1999 it was the world s second fastest computer, and remained among the world s ten fastest computers until November 2001. ref name LANL cite web url http www.lanl.gov orgs pa newsbulletin 2004 11 05 text06.shtml title Blue Mountain supercomputer is decommissioned date 2004 11 05 accessdate 2008 01 03 ref According to the Los Alamos National Laboratory website, the supercomputer set a world record in May 2000, with the equivalent of 17.8 years of normal computer processing within 72 hours, including 15,000 engineering simulations requiring 10 hours each. ref name LANL First commissioned in November 1998, the Blue Mountain was decommissioned on Monday, November 8, 2004 at 8 am, and was replaced by the ASCI Q, Lightning, and QSC supercomputers. ref name LANL Image Blue Mountain Supercomputer.jpg thumb 800px center Blue Mountain supercomputer facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2001. References references Category Supercomputers super compu stub ... more details
The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer personal supercomputer that is backed by Nvidia and built by Dell , Lenovo and other companies ref http www.tgdaily.com content view 40240 135 Nvidia s Tesla deskside supercomputer returns as a PC ref . It is meant to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia s Nvidia Tesla Tesla GPGPU brand it utilizes NVIDIA s CUDA parallel computing architecture and is powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores ref http www.theinquirer.net gb inquirer news 2008 11 18 nvidia tesla form basis desktop Nvidia s Tesla is desktop supercomputer ref , which allows it to achieve a performance up to 250 times faster than standard PCs, according to Nvidia. As of January 2009, the Tesla computer platform delivers the best performance among all stand alone systems being used in some distributed computing projects like SETI home or Folding home . List of Current System Builders AMAX Information Technologies AMAX Asus AVADirect BOXX Technologies BOXX http www.colfax intl.com nvidiatesla.html Colfax International Dell Lenovo Microway http www.psychsoftpc.com psychlone tesla.htm Psychsoftpc http hpc.sprinx.cz Uvodni stranka.aspx?lang en US Sprinx Systems Velocity Micro Viglen Viglen Ltd. Western Scientific See also Nvidia Tesla References reflist http www.deskeng.com articles aaanmf.htm NVIDIA Delivers the Personal Supercomputer DE Online External links http www.nvidia.com object personal computing.html Tesla Personal Supercomputer website http www.youtube.com nvidiatesla Nvidia Tesla YouTube channel Compu hardware stub Category Nvidia fr Nvidia Tesla personal supercomputer ... more details
The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer ECS was a large Meiko Computing Surface supercomputer . This transputer based, massively parallel system was installed at the University of Edinburgh during the late 1980s and early 1990s. History Following a pilot project involving an early 40 transputer Computing Surface installed in April 1986, funding was obtained from Science and Engineering Research Council SERC and the Department of Trade and Industry United Kingdom DTI for a much larger system using T800 transputers and a MicroVAX fileserver . The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project ECSP was formed to manage and support the facility, which was commissioned at the end of 1987. Over the next few years, the system received several upgrades, including more transputers reaching, at its peak, around 400 processors and the installation of M VCS and MeikOS system software, which enabled multi user access and removed the need for the MicroVAX. In 1990, the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project was succeeded by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre , which consolidated the project with other parallel computing resources and activities within the University. The ECS continued to be used for a variety of academic and commercial research work. In October 1992 the ECS was reconfigured as a SPARC hosted Computing Surface with three SPARC host processors running SunOS and around 380 T800s. The system was finally decommissioned in August 1994. References Wallace, D J. Supercomputing with Transputers , Computing Systems in Engineering , Volume 1, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 131 141, http dx.doi.org 10.1016 0956 0521 90 90052 M doi 10.1016 0956 0521 90 90052 M , Pergamon Press, Inc. Elmsford, NY, USA http www2.epcc.ed.ac.uk archive publications newsletters archive news 24 news 24www 1.html HEADING25 Brown, Mike. The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer an appreciation , EPCC News , No.24, 1994. External links http www.epcc.ed.ac.uk about us history EPCC History page super compu stub Category ... more details
cleanup date November 2010 POV date November 2010 Shanghai Supercomputer Center SSC zh c , founded on December 2000, was invested by Shanghai Municipal Government . With its world class facilities and quality services, Shanghai Supercomputer Center offers high performance computing, technical support and technical consulting services to wide range of customers from scientific research, public utilities services, to industrial and engineering. Till now, SSC has over 350 users from 27 provinces across the whole People s Republic of China China , and covers 20 different fields and industries, which includes weather forecast, drug design, life science, auto design, new material, civil engineering, physics, chemistry, aerospace, etc.. During the past decade, SSC has introduced three HPC systems, two of which were ranked 10 in TOP500 list in 2004 and 2009 separately they are DAWNING 4000A 10TFlops and Dawning Information Industry DAWNING 5000A Magic Cube, 230TFlops that is operated by SSC currently. See also Dawning Information Industry Computing platform Supercomputing in China Supercomputer centers in China References Portalbox People s Republic of China Computing Reflist External links http www.ssc.net.cn en index.asp Official website en Category Economy of Shanghai Category Supercomputing in China Category 2000 establishments in China China stub zh ... more details
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