WOW! Sun Wins at TACC - 400 TFLOPS

TACC is partnering with Sun Microsystems to deploy a supercomputer system specifically developed to support very large science and engineering computing requirements. In its final configuration in 2007, the supercomputer will have a peak performance in excess of 400 trillion floating point operations per second (teraflops), making it one of the most powerful supercomputer systems in the world. It will also provide over 100 trillion bytes (terabytes) of memory and 1.7 quadrillion bytes (petabytes) of disk storage. The system is based on Sun Fire™ x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun StorageTek™ disk and tape storage technologies, and will use over 13,000 of AMD’s forthcoming quad-core processors. It will be housed in TACC’s new building on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin, Texas.

This system marks Sun’s largest HPC installation to-date. “Sun’s new supercomputer and storage technologies create a powerful combination that will allow TACC to build and operate a supercomputer delivering more than 400 teraflops,” said Marc Hamilton, director of HPC Solutions, Sun Microsystems. “We are excited about extending our long standing relationship with TACC with this system, making it possible for scientists and engineers to reap the benefits of one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.” Kevin Knox, AMD’s vice president for worldwide commercial business, said, “The design and performance of the AMD Opteron processor and our planned quad-core processor roadmap have been integral in supplying the best option for high-performance computing deployments to customers such as Sun to provide to businesses, universities and government research centers.” Full Story Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( September 28, 2006 04:10 PM ) Permalink