New Systems bring 17,500 cores to ARL DSRC
The ARL DSRC is pleased to announce the acquisition
of three SGI Altix ICE linux clusters. These three systems are part of the DoD's High
Performance Computing Modernization Program's (HPCMP) Technology Insertion for 2009
(TI-09). The HPCMP provides the supercomputer services, high-speed network
communications, and computational science expertise that enables the Defense
laboratories and test centers to conduct a wide range of focused research,
development, and test activities. This partnership puts advanced technology in the
hands of U.S. forces more quickly, less expensively, and with a greater certainty of
success.
All three systems use the 2.8 GHz Intel Nehalem processor. The Nehalem is Intel's next generation microarchitecture that uses 45 nanometer circuit technology for more efficiency and another technology called QuickPath to improve distribution of data to and from the four cores contained on each chip.
The SGI Altix ICE is a blade-type platform that uses an Infiniband interconnect fabric in a hypercube configuration that allows scaling to thousands of processors.
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