Red Storm (computing)

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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. The initial configuration comprised 10,880 AMD Opteron processors, giving a peak performance of 41.5 teraflops.[2]

Top 500 performance ranking for Red Storm:

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

In 2006 the system was upgraded from 2.0 GHz single-core Opteron processors to 2.4 GHz Dual-Core Opterons resulting in over 26,000 processor cores. An additional fifth row of computer cabinets were brought online. This resulted in a peak performance of 124.4 teraflops, or 101.4 running the Linpack benchmark.[3]

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.[4]

References

  1. ^ Red Storm fact sheet
  2. ^ Sandia Red Storm press release
  3. ^ Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability, say researchers
  4. ^ Cray and Sandia Announce Agreement to Upgrade "Red Storm" Supercomputer to 284 Teraflops
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