The National Research and Technology Network (GRNET) is a leader in the field of supercomputer infrastructure, with the creation of the first one national computing system high performance.
The procurement and installation of the new system was undertaken COSMOS Business Systems into a cooperation to IBM, then open international competition organized by GRNET.
The new infrastructure is expected to play an important role in developing and promoting scientific research in the country and in Southeast Europe.
The system it depends on the platform NeXtScale of IBM, will incorporate the latest generation of processors Intel Xeon E5 v2 Ivy Bridge technology, and will offer computational power that touches them 180TFlops (trillions of floating point operations per second).
Having 426 computing nodes, will total over 8.500 processing cores (CPU cores) interconnected to network FDR Infiniband, μια τεχνολογία διασύνδεσης που προσφέρει πολύ χαμηλή καθυστέρηση (low latency) και υψηλό εύρος ζώνης (high bandwidth).
In addition, it will offer high performance storage space, approximately the size 1 Petabyte (four thousand million bytes), based on the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS).
The system will have software for developing applications such as compilers, scientific libraries, and popular suites scientific applications.
The new infrastructure will be integrated into the European ecosystem hypercomputers, aspiring to be included in the 500 world's most powerful computers, and to strengthen the participation of Greece in the pan-European infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe).
Η Computational Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Biomedicine, Meteorology, Seismology, Computational Machine and Materials Science, are indicative scientific disciplines that rely heavily on the use of modern supercomputer infrastructures.
System installation complete and start production is expected at the end of 2014.
Source: e-pcmag.gr
