Sun and TiTech To Build 100 TFlop Supercomputer
Sun and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TiTech) will use Sun Fire x64 servers to build Japan's largest supercomputer, planned to be over 100 TFlops when it is deployed in the first half of next year. It is a pretty impressive system. It will have 10,480 processor cores (5240 dual core AMD Opteron processors) and be connected to over 1 PB of Sun storage by eight 288 port Voltaire ISR9288 Infiniband switches. That gets the system to over 50 TFlops. The other 50 TFlops are planned to come from using ClearSpeed Advance Board to accelerate performance of the cluster nodes. By comparing to existing systems on the Top500 list today, this would be the largest supercomputer in Japan, the largest x64/x86 based cluster in the world, and the largest Infiniband cluster in the world. I'll have time to share more details over the next few weeks, but now off to another full day at SC05.