NERSC launches Edison supercomputer with 2.4 petaflops performance

The name of the famous scientist and inventor, Edison, is now widely known. That miniature computer made, the size of an SD card, now here - a supercomputer, the size of a couple of rooms. Called him, too, in honor of Edison. The working title is Cray XC30. Officially, this supercomputer will be launched on February 5, and it was created by experts from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center.

According to representatives of the project team, about 5 thousand people from around the world will work with this supercomputer. Among those who will be allowed access to the resources of the system are biologists, climatologists, materials scientists, physicists and other specialists. Accordingly, the supercomputer will help clarify the history of the Universe, study the genotype of living beings, help create new materials with desired properties and characteristics.
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The developers have optimized this system for carrying out demanding calculations, in fact, precisely for this, the Cray XC30 was created.

System performance 2.4 petaflops automatically puts the supercomputer in the top ten most powerful systems in the world. Edison is equipped with 322 terabytes of RAM, 124,608 processor cores, 7.56 petabytes of internal memory. In addition, the system can boast a memory bandwidth of 462 TB / s.

It is worth noting that this device is backward compatible with the previous model, Cray XE6 (this system was also created by NERSC). In other words, in order to make their software work on a new supercomputer, scientists need to make minimal changes to the Cray XE6 software. So almost immediately after the launch of the system, scientists will be able to access the resources of the new supercomputer.

By the way, it uses the original cooling system - water. Cooling of the supercomputer modules will occur due to the cooled water supplied through special pipelines. Already heated water is cooled outside, in special cooling towers.

Via nersc