MACH-2
Mach-2 is the name of a supercomputer at the Johannes Kepler University Linz . It went into operation in February 2018 and is the successor to a similar supercomputer called Mach . The name of both computers goes back to the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach . Mach-2 is an installation of an SGI UV 3000 , a so-called shared memory - CcNUMA computer, on which only one copy of the operating system is running and the entire working memory of all nodes is shared.
The installation in Linz consists of three cabinets with:
- 72 computer nodes ( blade server ) each with 2 processors of the type Intel Xeon E5-4650v3
- 12 processor cores each
- together 1728 cores
- total memory of 20 terabytes
The previous Mach computer was an SGI UV Altix 1000 installation