Sandia’s Red Storm Super Computer has just gone through a $15 Million upgrade which has made it the second fastest Super Computer and the most Scalable Super Computer on the Planet.
The Speed of the Super Computer has been increased from 41.5 TFlops to 124.4 TFlops.
The Red Storm is the second fastest Computer and is World’s number 1 in Scalability. Scalability refers to the efficiency of a Super Computer when its computing power is distributed among the numerous cores. The number of cores should not perform the Job faster but more computation should be done in the same time slice using increased number of processors.
The Red Storm is built by Cray Inc., which has a great background in building Super Computers.
The Red Storm design is the backbone of Cray XT3™ MPP that has been installed in many parts of the world.
Red Storm uses just 2.2 Megawatts of power, which is half when compared to other super computers of its class, and it takes only 3,500 Square feet area for installation.
The Computer has high stability as the Linpack test demonstrated high reliability as the computer ran repeatedly for nine hours on over 26,000 processor cores without a failure.
The machine took around three years and $77.5 million all-inclusive to build.
The secret behind the efficiency of this monster is that the system has a lightweight Kernel.
Via: sflorg
