Red Storm (computing)
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 commercially produced 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 for 14.5 teraflops. Additional computer cabinets were brought online as part of the "fifth-row" of the computer, bringing the total to 300 cabinets.
A second major upgrade in 2008 introduced Cray XT4 technology: Quad-Core Opteron processors and an increase in memory to 2 GB per core. This resulted in a peak performance of 284 teraflops.[3]
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