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The Top500 ranking improved between June and November of that year since the system was upgraded from 10880 2.0 GHz single core [[Opteron]]s to 12960 2.4 GHz [[dual-core]] Opterons with 26544 total processing elements. Additional compute cabinets were brought online as part of the "fifth-row" of the computer. |
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==External links and sources== |
==External links and sources== |
Revision as of 00:25, 28 December 2007
Red Storm is a supercomputer architecture designed for the ASCI Thor's Hammer supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratory by Cray, Inc.[1] The architecture was later productized as the Cray XT3.
It was announced on July 27, 2004.[2]
The Red Storm machine at Sandia Top 500 performance:
The Top500 ranking improved between June and November of that year since the system was upgraded from 10880 2.0 GHz single core Opterons to 12960 2.4 GHz dual-core Opterons with 26544 total processing elements. Additional compute cabinets were brought online as part of the "fifth-row" of the computer.