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| ClusterVision to deliver Belgium's fastest computer |
| Amsterdam 14 October 2008
ClusterVision, specialist in high performance compute, storage and database clusters, has been selected by the University of Gent to deliver a supercomputer based on IBM hardware and ClusterVision software. The supercomputer will be used by scientists at the university to boost research in various fields of science, including Informatics, Chemistry, Medicine and Genetics.
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With a theoretical peak performance of 16 TeraFLOPs, it will be the fastest computer in Belgium. For ClusterVision this will be second time to achieve this feat: In 2004, ClusterVision delivered a 1 Tflop/s supercomputer to CENAERO in Belgium, which - with a performance of 1 Tflop/s - was the most powerful one in Belgium at the time.
The supercomputer at the University of Gent will be built with blade servers and storage from IBM. It comprises more than 1600 energy-efficient Intel Xeon L5420 processor cores, more than 3 TeraBytes of memory and more than 44 TeraBytes of disk capacity. The servers in the supercomputer are connected through a state-of-the-art InfiniBand Double Data Rate network.
The supercomputer will run the ClusterVisionOS, ClusterVision's Linux-based cluster operating system and cluster management environment that makes it easy for the administrators to manage the clusters and for the scientists to use the cluster. The cluster will also run the IBM Global Parallel Filesystem (GPFS), which ensures fast and parallel access to the central disk storage. |
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| Source: ClusterVision |
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