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This table shows the systems and related resources at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility and the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
| NAS | NCCS | |
|---|---|---|
| Systems |
Pleiades SGI ICE cluster 185 racks (11,776 nodes) 112,896 cores GPU/Westmere nodes: 64 nodes (1 GPU per node) 768 total cores (General Purpose Intel Xeon Westmere Cores)
Columbia 4,608 cores 9 terabytes of memory Intel Itanium2 (Montecito) processors (1.6 GHz) and Intel Itanium2 (Montvale) processors (1.6 GHz) |
Discover 67 racks (3,394 nodes) 395.8 teraflops, peak 78.856 terabytes of memory Base Unit = Linux Cluster Custom Supersystem Scalable Units 1 to 6 = IBM iDataPlex Cluster System Scalable Units 1 to 4: 12,384 cores Intel Xeon Westmere (2.8 GHz) Scalable Units 5 and 6: 8,256 cores Intel Xeon Nehalem (2.8 Ghz) Scalable Unit 7 = Dell PowerEdge C6100 System 14,400 cores GPU IBM iDataPlex 384 total cores (General Purpose Intel Xeon Westmere Cores) 28,672 total cores (GPU Streaming Cores) 36.4 teraflops, peak 1.92 terabytes of memory, total |
| Storage | Online: Archive Capacity: |
Online: Archive Capacity: |
| Networking | SGI NUMAlink Voltaire InfiniBand 10-Gigabit Ethernet 1-Gigabit Ethernet |
SGI NUMAlink Mellanox Technologies and SilverStorm Technologies InfiniBand 10-Gigabit Ethernet 1-Gigabit Ethernet |
| Visualization and Analysis | Hyperwall-2 128 graphics processing units (Nvidia 8800GTX cards) ~74 teraflops, peak processing power 1,024 AMD Opteron cores (quad-core) 1.5 petabytes of storage |
Dali Data Analysis Nodes Data Portal HP BladeSystem C7000
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