Columbia (supercomputer)
Columbia is the name of a supercomputer that was operated by the American space agency NASA from 2004 to 2013 . It was mainly used for simulations , for example to calculate the behavior of rockets or the space shuttle during flight.
The SGI Altix computer is or was located in the Ames Research Center in Mountain View , California and at the time of commissioning it was the most powerful computer in the world with 42.7 TFLOPS . In the last expansion stage it consisted of 27 machines with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors each , so a total of 13,824 processors with an output of 66.57 TFLOPS. As operating system is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server uses.
In June 2005 it was ranked fourth in the TOP500 list of the 500 most powerful computer systems, 58th in the June 2009 list and 268th in November 2011.
It received its name in memory and honor of the Space Shuttle Columbia that crashed on February 1, 2003 .
Web links
- NASA's website about the supercomputer (English)
- Entry in the TOP500 list (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The current TOP500 list . top500.org. Retrieved August 2, 2009.