RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES TO BUILD POWER SUPERCOMPUTER 10 petaflops
Until the end of the year in the Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JSCC) will be launched the first phase of a supercomputer, which after completion will be the most productive in Russia, surpassing the first place Lomonosov `system`.
According to the deputy director of the JSCC Boris Shabanov, a part of the launch of the first stage supercomputer will earn two legs of the total capacity of 2 petaflops, which will already be enough to overcome the result of `University`. The final version of the system, the total cost of which is estimated at 2 billion, will consist of 54 racks with a total capacity of at least 10 petaflops. `One of the requirements for compute nodes is to take heat from them inside the rack only liquid coolant. Work this supercomputer running CentOS 6.2 or later version `, - the terms of reference.
#39;There comes the era of 10-petaflopsnyh machines. We develop these technologies, go to them. Our task is to make the end of year two of the first pillar, then the technology will allow a reasonable period of time - over the next year - provided necessary capital investments to increase capacity to 10 petaflops#39;, - the #39;Izvestia#39; Boris Shabanov.
Meanwhile, work on the supercomputer of this class is in the walls of the company `T-Platforms#39; for the Moscow State University. The system will be built with the use of water cooling and will come into operation in the 2013-2014 year.
In accordance with the current world ranking of supercomputers TOP500, `system` Lomonosov takes place 22. In addition to her in the rating included four Russian supercomputer. One of them is in MCTS Academy of Sciences, the other - in the South Ural State University, and two more - at the Kurchatov Institute.
Leading American system of Sequoia, which showed the Linpack benchmark performance of 16.32 petaflops.
