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* June 2007: Rank 3 [http://www.top500.org/system/8193]
* June 2007: Rank 3 [http://www.top500.org/system/8193]


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==

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:

  • November 2005: Rank 6 [1]
  • June 2006: Rank 9
  • November 2006: Rank 2
  • June 2007: Rank 3 [2]

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.

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