apparently Russia is catching up really fast on the latest of advancements in the super computer industry . lomonosov is their latest creation for the Moscow State University and used by the Research Computing Center . the lomonosov is ranked 12 in a list of 500 super computers , one of the advancements they did was achieving so much power while using the tightest area possible . i wanted to see the machine , what first came to my mind were those crude Russian glonass navigation systems and the crude Russian space vehicles but surprisingly its one of the best super computer i have ever seen , simply because most of it is not Russian made, for example the 8,892 multicore CPUs are Intel . Here are the specs and a picture .
Peak performance 420Tflops
Real performance 350Tflops
Linpack efficiency 83%
Number of compute nodes 4 446
Number of processors 8 892
Number of processor cores 35 776
Primary compute nodes T-Blade2
Secondary compute nodes T-Blade1.1, PeakCell S
Processor type of primary compute nodes Intel® Xeon X5570
Processor type of secondary compute nodes Intel® Xeon X5570, PowerXCell 8i
Total RAM 56 TB
Primary interconnect QDR Infiniband
Secondary interconnect 10G Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
External storage up to 1 350TB, T-Platforms ReadyStorage SAN 7998/Lustre
Operating system Clustrx T-Platforms Edition
Total area 252 square meters
Power consumption (supercomputer) 1.5MW
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