Ranger, the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, today was dedicated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin.
Ranger's deployment marks the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing (HPC) where systems will approach a thousand trillion floating point operations per second and manage a thousand trillion bytes of data.
Ranger FactsPeak Performance:
- 504 Teraflops compute power
- 3,936 Sun Blade 6048 4-Socket Quad-Core AMD Opteron Server Modules
- 15,744 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
Total Memory:
- 123 Terabytes total memory
Disk Subsystem:
- 1.7 Petabytes
Interconnect:
- Infiniband at 10Gbps