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COMPUTING SYSTEMS OVERVIEW

This table shows the systems and related resources at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility and the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS).


Information about HEC Systems and Related Resources
  NAS NCCS
Systems

Columbia
23-node SGI Altix constellation-class supercluster
89.2 teraflops, peak
14,336 processors (1.5/1.6 GHz Intel Itanium2-Madison: single-core; Montecito: dual-core)
28 terabytes of memory

Schirra
IBM POWER5+ supercomputer
4.9 teraflops, peak
40 compute nodes, each with 16 SMPs in 8 dual-cores
1.24 terabytes of memory

RTJones
SGI Altix ICE cluster
43 teraflops, peak
4,096 cores (Xeon quad-core)
4 terabytes of memory

Discover
Linux Networx Custom Supersystem
25 teraflops, peak
2,560 processors (512 3.2 GHz Xeon, 2,048 2.6 GHz Xeon)
1.536 terabytes of memory

Explore
SGI Altix 3700 BX2
6.9 teraflops, peak
1,152 processors (1.5 GHz Itanium 2)
2.3 terabytes of memory
Storage

Online:
2+ petabytes of RAID (combined total for all systems on computer floor)

Archive Capacity:
12 petabytes

Online:
400 terabytes of RAID

Archive Capacity:
10 petabytes
Networking SGI NUMAlink
Voltaire InfiniBand
10-Gigabit Ethernet
1-Gigabit Ethernet		 SGI NUMAlink
SilverStorm Technologies InfiniBand
10-Gigabit Ethernet
1-Gigabit Ethernet
Visualization and Analysis Hyperwall-2 (coming soon)
128 graphics processing units (Nvidia 8800GTX cards)
~74 teraflops, peak processing power
1,024 Opteron cores (quad-core)
350 terabytes of storage

SGI Origin 3800
64 processors
64 gigabytes of memory

Linux Networx Visualization Nodes
16 nodes, each containing:
4 processors (2.6 GHz AMD Opteron)
1 graphics processing unit (NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500)
8 gigabytes of memory

Data Portal
HP Opteron
16 processors
16 gigabytes of main memory
40 terabytes of network storage (GPFS managed)
NFS served to compute hosts

 

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