20480 Xeon processors will be involved by NASA to study the Moon and Mars
NASA once again turned to SGI company for help in creating supercomputer. Both organizations reported that SGI will be building a powerful new computer system for NASA.
For built supercomputer will be used Quad-core Intel Xeon processors in the number of 20480 pieces. This will provide computer SGI Altix ICE computing power of 245 TeraFLOPS (trillion operations per second) and the title of one of the fastest computers in the world.
The other characteristics of the supercomputer also impressive: the memory of more than 20800GB and disk space (SGI InfiniteStorage InfiniBand next generation) will have a capacity of 450TB. In addition, the system will be used even Networked Storage SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS Network Attached Storage, whose capacity is 115TB.
he new system running under Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, is more powerful than NASA system - Columbia, but will work together with it, because both are equipped with high-speed InfiniBand interfaces, that allow to achieve very low connecting delays and broad bandwidth, that will favourably influence
the efficiency of joint work of both supercomputing.
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