[ug-bosug] Interesting News

[Amit Sharma]

Just to add, some of the most innovative and new products from Sun have 
made their debut at the Ranger, among them is the world's biggest IB 
switch Mangum (with 3456 ports).

It also deploys Lustre (distributed file system), infact lustre is 
deployed at 7 of the worlds top 10 Super Computers.

Some more stats on the Ranger:

TFLOPs: approximately 500 TERAFLOPs
Magnums: 2 (>2000 4x IB ports each, expandable to 6,912 ports)
Thumpers: 72 (1.728 PB)
Metadata storage: STK6450 RAID (9.3 TB)
Tape storage: STK SL8500
Racks: 82
IB NEMs: 328
Pegasus blades: 3936
Aggregate memory size: 123 TB
Number of cores: 62,976

Total racks: 94
Approx footprint: 2,037 sq ft
Approx power: 2.4 MWatts
IB cable length: ~14 kilometers

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    Some interesting news:
>    A huge supercomputing system from SUN called Ranger (SUN
> Constellation Series) at TACC Univ. Of Texas has come into production.
> It is built out of AMD quad-cores processors with 123TB or RAM, 1.7PB
> of disk space with 504 TFlops of peak performance, 4000 compute nodes
> and a staggering 62976 CPU cores whew!
> 
> What more, this is a general purpose system, not a special purpose
> supercomputer only meant for certain tasks (eg. weather forecasting).
> It is probably the World's most powerful general purpose supercomputing
> cluster today. Among other things it will be used by NASA to do some
> Big Bang simulations!
> 
> Some more details here:
> http://blogs.sun.com/HPC/entry/tacc_ranger_in_production
> http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/02/05/University/Worlds.Largest.Supercomputer.Opens.For.Access-3187904.shtml
> http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-0626/feature/index.jsp
> 
> Regards,
> Moinak.
> 
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