Huygens (supercomputer)
Huygens is a supercomputer from the SARA company. It was put into operation on June 13, 2007 by Mayor Job Cohen in the Science Park in Amsterdam . The computer is named after the Dutch astronomer and natural scientist Christiaan Huygens and the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens .
Performance data
Huygens currently consists of 120 1.9 GHz IBM Power 5+ processors with 16 cores each and achieves a performance of 14.6 TeraFlops . In its final expansion stage, it should provide 60 TeraFlops. It currently ranks 315th in the TOP500 (as of June 2008).
Its storage capacity is currently 480 TB, consisting of individual 300 GB hard drives. As operating system is SuSE Linux Version 9 for POWER5 + is used.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Processor data at huygens.supercomputer.nl ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Huygens description at Huygens.supercomputer.nl ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Placement in the Top 500 ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
