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J4D

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some info about the new russian super computer

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

edit : fixed spelling

Last edited by jadberro (December 7 2009)