OSC and SGI offer first Itanium processor-based clusterColumbus 08 August 2001 OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and SGI (NYSE: SGI) announce the launch of a new cluster from SGI utilizing the Itanium-based Silicon Graphics 750 system, making this cluster one of the fastest in the world. This 146-processor system will allow Ohio researchers to study everything from quark-antiquark attraction and radiation transfer in astrophysical outflows to simulations of photosynthesis components and matter in the early universe.
The Silicon Graphics 750 system with 292 Gflop/s performance
for double-precision computations and 856 Gflop/s peak performance for
single-precision computations, follows the Pentium III Xeon cluster that
was operative at OSC for the past 18 months. The old system will be divided into
smaller clusters and cascaded to faculty as part of the Cluster Ohio Project
grants awarded last month.
This system is the first Itanium processor-based cluster installed by SGI.
The Silicon Graphics 750 systems with the Itanium processor are linked with
the Myrinet-2000 interconnect for MPI traffic, which is developed and
produced by Myricom, the leading high-speed network for connecting computers to
form clusters. Myrinet clusters are used worldwide for computationally
demanding scientific and engineering applications and for data-intensive Web and
database applications.
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