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Powerful supercomputer system goes online

by on25 February 2008

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most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research has been switched on by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dubbed Ranger, it runs on the NSF TeraGrid, a nationwide network of academic HPC centers that provide scientists and researchers access to large-scale computing power and resources. According to a press release, it will provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over its four-year lifetime.

It can manage half a petaflop of peak performance and is built on the Sun Constellation System with 3,936 compute nodes in a Sun Blade 6048 Modular System with 15,744 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, and Sun Fire x4500 servers providing 1.7 petabytes of storage.
Last modified on 25 February 2008
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