SGI's Altix ICE powers NASA Pleiades Supercomputer

Posted on: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:41:00 EST


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Nov 20, 2009 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) --
SGI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Provider of HPC and data centre solutions SGI (Nasdaq:SGI) today
announced that NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer at the NASA Advanced
Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field,
California, was certified by the TOP500 list as one of the fastest
supercomputers in the world as measured by the LINPACK Benchmark.

The TOP500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of
Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.

The fastest supercomputer on the November 2009 list based on an open
systems approach (commodity processor, operating system and
interconnect), the Pleiades supercomputer ranked sixth overall.

The supercomputers is powered by SGI's Altix ICE 8200EX, which helps
the world's most sophisticated HPC installations solve the most complex
scientific computing problems.

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