The High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster will be equipped with 512 AMD Opteron "Barcelona" CPUs - equal to 2048 cores - which provide a total compute capacity of more than 17 TeraFLOPs. The compute nodes of the cluster will be interconnected by an InfiniBand DDR network and will have more than 4.5 TeraBytes of total memory. The cluster will run the ClusterVisionOS, ClusterVision's Linux-based cluster software distribution which provides an integrated software environment for the effective use and management of the system. The supercomputer will be one of the fastest of its kind in Europe and would feature on today's TOP100 of fastest supercomputers in the world.

Dr. Carlo Maria Serio, Head of the HPC department at CASPUR, stated: "Today's research requires, in several disciplines, even more compute power in a well-balanced network of easy-to-use facilities and valuable competences. The ClusterVision HPC cluster will be a very important asset to improve such a network in CASPUR's renewed strategy for HPC. ClusterVision has offered us a very good solution in terms of technical quality, services and price/performance, and their references in the European HPC arena are relevant."

"We are very proud that CASPUR - as one of Italy's most prestigious HPC consortia - has selected ClusterVision to supply its central supercomputer. We hope that this project will be the start of a fruitful and long-term collaboration between CASPUR and ClusterVision", commented Dr. Matthijs van Leeuwen, Sales Director and co-founder of ClusterVision.

"CASPUR's choice for ClusterVision marks a major milestone in ClusterVision's presence in the Italian HPC market. Italy is a very important growth market for ClusterVision and CASPUR is a key customer in this market. I look forward to working with CASPUR to make this project a success", commented Roberto Ratti, Manager Italy for ClusterVision.

"We are pleased that our new quad-core technology will empower such a renowned supercomputer consortium as CASPUR in Italy", stated Marco Piattelli, Director Enterprise Business Development AMD Europe. "We believe that the quad-core AMD Opteron processor-based solution will provide the right level of performance and scalability to meet the consortium's diverse application requirements."