Powerful New Research Computing System Available via the TeraGrid
Loading...
Files
Can’t use the file because of accessibility barriers? Contact us with the title of the item, permanent link, and specifics of your accommodation need.
Date
2006-11-14
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Permanent Link
Abstract
Indiana University's 20.48 Teraflop IBM e1350 BladeCenter supercomputer system ("Big Red") has been made available to researchers throughout the U.S. via the NSF-funded TeraGrid. The Big Red system finished 23rd on the June 2006 Top500 list, making it at that time the fastest supercomputer owned and operated by a U.S. university and also the fastest computer to be made available through the TeraGrid to date.
Big Red is a distributed shared-memory cluster, consisting of 512 IBM BladeCenter JS21s, each with two dual-core PowerPC 970 MP processors (2.5GHz), 8GB of ECC PC3200 SDRAM, 72GB local SATA disk for scratch space, 360 TB GPFS parallel filesystem and a PCI-X Myrinet 2000 adapter for high-bandwidth, low-latency MPI applications.
A significant portion of Big Red will be allocated to TeraGrid utilization. The TeraGrid is the National Science Foundation's flagship effort to create a national cyberinfrastructure to support academic research and promote scientific discovery.
Description
Poster presentation at IEEE/ACM SC06 Conference, Tampa, FL.
Keywords
Citation
Journal
DOI
Link(s) to data and video for this item
Relation
Rights
Type
Presentation