solar ships supercomputer to Texas university

solar Microsystems is nicely at the manner to turning into the supercomputing name to reckon with. The corporation has won a deal from the college of Texas (UT) to deliver a supercomputer system that, when finished subsequent yr, might be the fastest ever.

The Texas advanced laptop center (TACC) at UT is to get a $59 million (£31.4 million) provide from the countrywide technology foundation towards the supercomputer. The final version could be up and going for walks by way of October subsequent year, and the completed product can have a large thirteen,000 four-center AMD Opteron processors, 100TB of reminiscence and a 1.7PB difficult disk.

The deal returns sun to the top 500 supercomputer ratings, depriving friends IBM , HP , Dell and other more specialised players of all the glory. recently, sun has enjoyed excessive performance computing achievement attributable to its Opteron-primarily based server line.

solar and UT claim that the TACC box will reach height performance of four hundred teraflops (trillions of floating point calculations). it will be used for a wide form of medical obligations, together with calculating booster donations for the school's football group

Lawrence Livermore national Laboratory currently has the quickest computer in the global, topping out at 280 teraflops. The IBM BlueGene gadget got here in number one at the TOP500 listing of the sector's fastest supercomputers launched earlier this yr, because it has for the closing two years. it's far predicted to stay at the top for some greater years, in line with the list.

IBM plans to release a new gadget that mixes its personal cellular processors with Opteron chips subsequent yr. That supercomputer for Los Alamos countrywide Lab ought to come close to quadrupling Blue Gene's overall performance by using cranking 1 quadrillion floating-factor operations in line with 2d - or, in different terms, a petaflop.

Supercomputing structures have long been taken into consideration a countrywide treasure within the US. the usa government has validated willing to fund the giants with generous presents, ensuring that American supercomputers are swifter and bigger than any others.