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p2pnet news view | Cool Stuff:- The University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium and IBM say they’ve teamed up to build a supercomputer able to perform 360 trillion calculations per second.
The soul of the new machine will comprise a, “hybrid design containing two systems that can work together or independently, connected to a massive five petabyte storage complex,” says the UofT, going on the machine is expected to be among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the world, “30 times faster than the peak performance of Canada’s current largest research system”.
It also represents the second largest system ever built on a university campus, and will be the largest supercomputer outside the United States, it says.
“SciNet will have one of the best facilities in the world that will allow Canadian physicists to participate in the adventure of the Large Hadron Collider,” says Dr Pierre Savard, a member of the Canadian group working at CERN, Geneva.
“This research may change our view of matter and the universe.”
The facility will involve the largest implementation of IBM’s iDataPlex system, which holds twice as many processors per unit as standard systems and is entirely water cooled, says the UofT, adding:
“More than 4,000 servers will be linked together in this multi-platform solution, including one of the world’s largest POWER6 clusters and Intel x86-based clusters. This IBM supercomputer will be one of the first systems to use Future Intel Nehalem processor families, being introduced in early 2009.”
Funding comes from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation’s National Platforms Fund, in partnership with the Province of Ontario and the University of Toronto.
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UofT -U of T to acquire Canada’s most powerful supercomputer from IBM, August 14, 2008
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August 15th, 2008 at 9:09 am
How much is that supercomputer in the window?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Where’s the “One Supercomputer Per Child” program?
August 16th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Must be why Ontario Hydro is campaigning for everyone to save electricity with their HydroWISE advertising. Any power saved would now be used to run this sucker.
“In Ontario, you have the power.”
August 18th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
…So then I said to him, “supercollider? I just MET her!”