Saturday September 30, 2006 Another Big HPC Win
Another great HPC win!From http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/general/press/announcements/20060928_01.php:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a five-year, $59 million award to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to acquire, operate and support a high-performance computing system that will provide unprecedented computational power to the nation’s research scientists and engineers.As with the big TiTech win, N1 System Manager will be used to provide management for the compute nodes and N1 Grid Engine will be used for job scheduling and reporting....
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.
You can download System Manager for free here and Grid Engine for free here. Don't forget to sign up for an Sun Developer Network account and check out the BigAdmin portal while you're at it. ( Sep 30 2006, 11:24:00 PM PDT ) Permalink