SDSC acquires 64-Processor SUN HPC 10000 Supercomputing Platform for NPACISan Diego 20 Oct 99The new HPC 10000 will be configured with 64 400-MHz processors, 64 gigabytes of memory, and 800 GB of disk storage in a Sun StorEdge A5200, for a peak performance exceeding 50 gigaflops. Fifty percent of the machine's time will be available to scientists through NPACI's allocations process. The HPC 10000 will also be used for large-scale simulations through NPACI's Strategic Application Collaboration programme. One project will focus on the fundamental physics codes related to magnetic recording materials developed by Neal Bertram and the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at UC San Diego. A second project will use the HPC 10000 for the GENESIS neuron simulation code developed by James Bower at Caltech. The HPC 10000 acquisition represents the latest chapter in the collaboration between SDSC and Sun. The HPC 10000 joins a cluster of five other Sun HPC servers at SDSC which serve as high-availability data servers and development platforms. SDSC has used an earlier HPC 10000 to spearhead efforts in bioinformatics. For example, it was used as the primary processing machine for the Protein Data Bank, the single international repository for 3-D structure data on biological molecules and a crucial tool for unlocking the secrets of these molecules.
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