National Swedish Supercomputer Centre buys 96 Gflop/s SGI-SN

 Stockholm 12 Apr 00 The National Swedish Supercomputer Centre (NSC) has completed the procurement of a new HPC system. The system, an SN-MIPS from SGI, will be installed during the fourth quarter of 2000. The machine will have 96 processors, each with 1 Gflop/s peak and 1 Gbyte of memory. The system will replace a current Cray C90 system.

NSC will install the following software on the system:

  • Trusted IRIX MLS (Multi Level Security) operating system
  • LSF batch queue system
  • MPI, PVM, SHMEM and OpenMP for parallelization
  • System initiated checkpoint restore
  • Third party software including Gaussian 98

The NSC user surveys have indicated an increasing demand for large primary memory areas. Therefore, NCS' new t SN-MIPS system will have 96 GByte of shared memory and fast large scale secondary storage of at least 6 TByte. Compared to the shared memory of the Cray C90 at NSC this is an increase by a factor of 48 in size.

The new system is thus especially suitable for applications that make use of large primary memory and fast large scale secondary storage. For example applications that diagonalize large matrices in core or applications that use out of core solvers to handle even larger problems.

From July 1st until the installation of the SN-MIPS system a smaller SGI Origin 2000 interim system will be available. The interim system will be equipped with 32 processors, a total of 32 GByte shared memory and 16 Gflop /s total peak performance.

For more information, check in at: NSC web site .

 

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