The National Research and Technology Network (ESET) is a pioneer in the field of supercomputing infrastructures, with creation of the first national computing system high performance.
The procurement and installation of the new system was undertaken COSMOS Business Systems in partnership with 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 technology Bridge, and will offer computing power reaching the 180TFlops (trillions of floating point operations per second).
Having 426 computing nodes, will total over 8.500 processing cores (CPU cores) interconnected in an FDR Infiniband network, an interconnection technology that offers very low delay (low latency) and high bandwidth (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 of supercomputers, aspiring to be included in the 500 world's most powerful computers, and to strengthen Greece's participation 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
