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Simply Beautiful: MareNorstum4 Supercomputer Sports 13.7 Petaflops
June 22, 2017 by staff
Over at Lenovo, Gavin O'Hara writes that the world’s most beautiful supercomputer center now sports a 13.7 Petaflop system so novel in design that it has captured the attention of the global HPC community. It landed at #13 on the TOP500 this week, and that’s just the beginning.
Save us from what? We’re not sure yet. But one day soon a scientific or medical research breakthrough will happen and its origins will be traced back to a glass-encased room inside the Torre Girona Chapel. Sitting within is a hulking mass of supercomputing power: a whopping 3,400 servers connected by 48 kilometers of cable and wire.
Torre Girona, nestled inside the Barcelona Supercomputing Center on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, was used as a Catholic Church until 1960. The church was deconsecrated in the 1970s but, the longer you spend here seeing how supercomputing speed can enable lightning-fast insight, the more you start to sense the presence of a higher power.
This is technology at its inquisitive best. And it all starts with the specs of the monster they call MareNostrum.
Specifications
To consider the sheer power and scale of MareNostrum’s High Performance Computing capabilities is to test your own knowledge of large-scale counting units. You see, for supercomputing nerds it’s all about FLOPs, or Floating Point Operations/Second. The original MareNostrum 1, installed in 2004, had a calculation capacity of 42.35 teraflops/second. Which meant 42.35 trillion operations/second. Not bad, I guess, until you consider that the 2017 version (MareNostrum 4) blows that out of the water–it possesses 322 times the speed of the original.
The new supercomputer has a performance capacity of 13.7 petaflops/second and will be able to carry out 13,677 trillion operations per second,” says Lenovo VP Wilfredo Sotolongo as we gaze upwards inside the chapel. Sotolongo not only works closely with the BSC, he actually lives near Torre Girona in Barcelona.
Read the full article at https://insidehpc.com/2017/06/simply-beautiful-marenorstum4-supercomputer-sports-13-7-petaflops/
June 22, 2017 by staff
Over at Lenovo, Gavin O'Hara writes that the world’s most beautiful supercomputer center now sports a 13.7 Petaflop system so novel in design that it has captured the attention of the global HPC community. It landed at #13 on the TOP500 this week, and that’s just the beginning.
"In a converted 19th-century church on the outskirts of Barcelona sits a computer so overwhelmingly powerful, it could someday save us all."
Save us from what? We’re not sure yet. But one day soon a scientific or medical research breakthrough will happen and its origins will be traced back to a glass-encased room inside the Torre Girona Chapel. Sitting within is a hulking mass of supercomputing power: a whopping 3,400 servers connected by 48 kilometers of cable and wire.
Torre Girona, nestled inside the Barcelona Supercomputing Center on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, was used as a Catholic Church until 1960. The church was deconsecrated in the 1970s but, the longer you spend here seeing how supercomputing speed can enable lightning-fast insight, the more you start to sense the presence of a higher power.
This is technology at its inquisitive best. And it all starts with the specs of the monster they call MareNostrum.
Specifications
To consider the sheer power and scale of MareNostrum’s High Performance Computing capabilities is to test your own knowledge of large-scale counting units. You see, for supercomputing nerds it’s all about FLOPs, or Floating Point Operations/Second. The original MareNostrum 1, installed in 2004, had a calculation capacity of 42.35 teraflops/second. Which meant 42.35 trillion operations/second. Not bad, I guess, until you consider that the 2017 version (MareNostrum 4) blows that out of the water–it possesses 322 times the speed of the original.
The new supercomputer has a performance capacity of 13.7 petaflops/second and will be able to carry out 13,677 trillion operations per second,” says Lenovo VP Wilfredo Sotolongo as we gaze upwards inside the chapel. Sotolongo not only works closely with the BSC, he actually lives near Torre Girona in Barcelona.
Read the full article at https://insidehpc.com/2017/06/simply-beautiful-marenorstum4-supercomputer-sports-13-7-petaflops/
