Last December I posted Where In The World Is AMD's Barcelona? to highlight the supply problems AMD was experiencing in delivering their quad-core processor to the marketplace. One of the main reasons for the shortage is that most of the available processors were being shipped to directly to Texas to be installed in a high-performance computing (HPC) system called Ranger, which was expected to become the fastest supercomputer in the world with a peak performance of 504 teraflops when it entered service on February 4th.
There were several delays, not all attributed to AMD, and after IBM recently updated their HPC system (Blue Gene) to support a peak performance of 596 teraflops; the Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) can only claim Ranger as the fastest "open system" HPC in the world. Ranger is the largest computing system in the world for open science research.
Here are some more specs on TACC's newest addition to their HPC systems family:
System Name: | Ranger
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| Host Name:
| ranger.tacc.utexas.edu
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| IP Address:
| 129.114.50.163
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| Operating System:
| Linux
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| Number of Nodes:
| 3,936
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| Number of Processing Cores:
| 62,976
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| Total Memory:
| 123TB
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| Peak Performance:
| 504TFlops
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| Total Disk:
| 1.73PB (shared) & 31.4TB (local)
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Okay, so now I only have a short wait until I can obtain quad-processor Opteron's for my work environment, now they've finished their work.
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