Aurora Prepares new Super Computer 180 petaflops

The American Ενέργειας (Department of Energy) ανακοίνωσε τα σχέδια του, για την κατασκευή ενός νέου υπερυπολογιστή που θα ονομάζεται Aurora. Το νέο σύστημα θα γίνει ο γρηγορότερος in the United States and possibly around the world. Aurora

The DOE undersecretary “Lynn” Orr, ανακοίνωσε ότι η Intel Corp. και η Cray Inc. είχαν επιλεγεί για να εξοπλίσουν το Εθνικό Εργαστήριο Argonne (Argonne Leadership Computing Facility ή ALCF) με ένα σύστημα που στο peak του θα “χτυπάει” τα 180 petaflops. Το νέο σύστημα πριν κατασκευαστεί έχει ονομαστεί Aurora και θα κοστίσει 200 εκατομμύρια δολάρια. Στα σχέδια είναι επίσης και η κατασκευή ενός βοηθητικού συστήματος με 8 petaflops, που θα ονομάζεται Θήτα ή Theta, σηματοδοτώντας την του Oak Ridge, Argonne, και Lawrence Livermore (CORAL).

"The Aurora "It is expected to be 18 times more powerful than Argonne's current Mira system, but it will only use 2,7 times more energy," said Undersecretary Orr. This kind of energy efficiency is vital to the development of next-generation supercomputers on an exa-class scale, he continued.

The Aurora system is programmed to operate 2018, while the Theta system will reach 2016 to support Argonne's transition from Mira to Aurora.

The main contractor of the contract is Intel Federal, a fully controlled subsidiary of Intel Corp.

Intel will work with Cray Inc. which has been proven expertise for supercomputing and HPC software stacks. the Aurora system will be based on a next-generation super computer, with the name “Shasta,” belonging to the Cray® XC™ series. Essentially, it will be the first system based on the Cray architecture of 'Shasta'

Intel announced at ComputerWorld that the next-generation super computer will use Intel Xeon, multi-socket web servers as well as Xeon Phi chips, up to 72 cores.

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