Brutus (cluster)
Brutus is a supercomputer at ETH Zurich .
Benchmarking
On the TOP500 list of the 500 fastest computer systems in the world from November 2009, it took 88th place. On the November 2011 list it was number 477. Within Europe, it is tenth. In Switzerland, only the “Monte Rosa” Cray XE6 (rank 57, June 2012) and the “Tödi” Cray XK6, both at the CSCS in Manno, are faster.
When it was commissioned, Brutus was the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose computer.
Processors
Brutus is a heterogeneous system with 9912 processor cores in 1108 computing nodes :
- 410 nodes with four quad-core AMD Opteron 8380 CPUs and 32 GB RAM (6720 cores)
- 80 nodes with four quad-core AMD Opteron 8384 CPUs and 32 GB RAM (1280 cores)
- 10 nodes with four quad-core AMD Opteron 8380 CPUs and 128 GB RAM (160 cores)
- 4 nodes with two six-core AMD Opteron 2436 CPUs and 16 GB RAM (48 cores)
- 272 nodes with two dual-core AMD Opteron 2220 CPUs and 16 GB RAM (1088 cores)
- 324 nodes with two single-core AMD Opteron 250 CPUs and 8 GB RAM (612 cores)
- 8 fat nodes with eight dual-core AMD Opteron 8220 CPUs and 64–128 GB RAM (128 cores)
The maximum output of Brutus is around 90 teraflops .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ TOP500 list from November 2009
- ↑ heise.de: AMD Opteron conquers top position among supercomputers
- ^ A supercomputer for 550 scientists , ETH Life, March 24, 2009.