Highly-efficient ALICE supercomputer is a wonder in green computing

Living to the demand of green, high-tech computers, the University of Leicester have upgraded their ALICE (Advanced Leicester Information and Computational Environment) computer into environmentally-friendly and high-tech super computer. The University has spent about $3.3 million to reach the feat with the computer developed by Hewlett Packard. Perfectly made to cater to the research and development ventures of the University, the super computer is said to be as powerful as thousands of desktop PCs. Employing Ecofris technology, which includes an advanced water-cooling system that’s said to be “like a glorified car radiator,” the ALICE is said to reduce CO2 emissions by 800 tons compared to the ALICE’s predecessor. For its makeup, the system is made up of “256 computer nodes, two login nodes, two management nodes, and a high performance parallel file system with a 100TB capacity.” Each of the components is connected by high-speed network, with each node featuring a “pair of quad-core 2.67GHz Intel Xeon X5550 CPUs and 12GB of RAM.” The ALICE stuffs in a total of 2048 CPU cores running 64-bit Scientific Linux 5.4. Via: ScientificComputing/Inhabitat

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