Red Storm
Red Storm is from 2004 by Cray Inc. as successor to ASCI Red for the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque built (New Mexico) supercomputer . It is the first model with the Cray XT3 architecture for high-performance computers and is used for simulation tasks , among others as part of the American Advanced Simulation and Computing Program .
The lead developer was William Camp .
construction
The system consists of 14,348 computing nodes, each consisting of a dual core AMD Opteron processor for computing tasks and a PowerPC 440 -based processor (SeaStar) for communication tasks . It is an MPP system with distributed memory and MIMD architecture.
The operating system used on the Catamount computing processors (based on the Cougar used by ASCI Red) and a variant of Linux on the communication processors .
The system occupies an area of around 300 m² and has a power consumption of around 2.2 MW .
power
In the first expansion stage from 2004, the system achieved a LINPACK performance of around 42 TFlops with 10,386 single-core Opterons clocked at 2.0 GHz . After increasing the number of nodes to 14,348 and upgrading to 2.4 GHz dual-core Opterons (2006), the total performance increased to 101.4 TFlops (124.4 TFlops peak performance), making Red Storm 3rd place (as of June 2007) the TOP500 list of supercomputers behind the BlueGene / L of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (280.6 TFLOPS) and the "Jaguar" of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (101.7 TFLOPS).