HP goes for the Ghent University a new supercomputer build. The rekenmonster running RedHat Linux and have a peak performance of 155 teraflops can achieve. The new supercomputer is the most powerful of Belgium lwa.
HP has chosen for 8500 cores of Intel Sandy Bridge technology, linked to a FDR InfiniBand netwerkinterconnect of Mellanox. Data Direct Network provides the data storage, and Adaptive Software provides the job scheduler, which means that the system tasks in parallel can run.
The supercomputer will be used for the prediction of physiological processes in space, fluids and plasmadynamica, nanotechnology, modeling of materials, biophysics, bio-informatics and computational chemistry. Research institutions and university organizations of Flanders allowed the system to be used.
In the second half of this year, HP to the construction. A new data centre of Ghent University, the system will accommodate. HP nor the University of Ghent was prepared to provide details to release about the technical specifications of the system. How they to the number of 155 teraflops is not clear.
The whole project will be about 4.2 million euros in costs; that amount is financed by the Flemish government. With this project, given Belgium a second supercomputer in the top 500. The only one that is there now, at 291, is in private use. The new system of HP will that place match.