First part of SP supercomputer extension arrived in AmsterdamAmsterdam 01 February 2002 The IBM SP at the academic supercomputing centre in Amsterdamentered a second phase in its existence, exactly according to plan. The first extension is a fact now. At the beginning In January 2002, besides the three existing towers, two new ones with Regatta-(p690) processors were placed. Each tower contains one node with 32 Power4-processors, with a clock cycle of 1,1 GHz. This adds 280 Gigaflop/s to the existing peak performance of 210 Gflop/s, doubling the capacity of the system. Each node contains 32 Gbyte of shared memory.
Production will start beginning of February.
The IBM SP configuration is the jointly owned by the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam (VU), NCF and SARA, and can be used by scientists at
the VU and at a number of FOM institutes.
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