Supercomputer con 264 Athlon MP

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2002--

Performing At Over 300 Gigaflops, This Supercomputer Ranks Within the Top 100 of the Fastest Supercomputers in the World http://www.top500.org/

RackSaver(TM) and its partners are helping to push the knowledge envelope further with a new supercomputer cluster for researchers in the fields of planetary physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).

The supercomputer, with processing power in excess of 300 gigaflops, has been dubbed "UpsAnd" for the Upsilon Andromedae Planetary System, a star orbited by three planets that provided the first evidence that other solar systems like our own exist elsewhere in the universe. "UpsAnd" will be used to help UCSC scientists learn more about planets, stars and the universe by modeling these systems on their new supercomputer.

The Supercomputer consists of 132 Linux based nodes configured with 264 AMD Athlon(TM) MP processors, 132 gigabytes of memory and nearly 8 terabytes of storage. Each node is connected with Dolphin Interconnect's high-performance WulfKit, which includes a 64Bit/66MHz SCI card and Scali high-performance MPI and Universe cluster management software. Only the RackSaver RS-1132 chassis allows for these specifications to be configured in a 19" 1U rack-optimized server design.

With performance numbers exceeding 300 gigaflops, "UpsAnd" ranks among the top 100 supercomputers in the world, and currently is the most powerful high-performance supercluster San Diego-based RackSaver has built to date.