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| Reading University is keeping ahead in HPC |
| Reading 09 February 2009
At Reading University, an HPC development area using IBM Cell processor technology has recently been installed. This requirement was easy to accommodate within the Thames Blue system as IBM QS22 Cell blades simply plug into spare slots within the existing Bladecentre H chassis installed.
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Following the successful Thames Blue Supercomputer project supplied by OCF in 2005, due to high demand for the service Reading University embarked on an expansion of the service in 2007 to include 700x JS21 Blade servers based on IBM PowerPC technology installed within the flexible and versatile IBM Bladecentre H chassis which provides a rack dense solution for the system. In total the upgrade provided a further 2800 processor cores each operating at 2.5Ghz with all compute nodes being connected via a Myrinet 2000 High speed interconnect. The existing high performance Global Parallel File Structure (GPFS) storage was also increased by a further 40TB to 60TB in total. This system featured in the Supercomputer Top500 list and when first installed was the most powerful academic computer in Britain, and the second most powerful computer in the United Kingdom overall. |
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| Source: OCF |
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