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'stampede's' Comprehensive Capabilities to Bolster .s. Open Science Computational Resources
The Stampede supercomputer, part of the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF's) eXtreme Digital (XD) program, is expected to be fully operational by January 2013.
Credit: Courtesy of University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that it will deploy and support Stampede, a new supercomputer that will offer data-intensive computing and visualization capabilities for the open science community.
The supercomputer, part of the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF's) eXtreme Digital (XD) program, is expected to be fully operational by January 2013. "We expect the Stampede system to be a model for supporting petascale simulation-based science and data-driven science," says TACC director Jay Boisseau.
When Stampede is deployed in 2013, it will be the most powerful system in the NSF XD environment. Stampede will have several thousand Dell Zeus servers, each of which will have dual eight-core processors and 32 GB of memory. The system will offer almost 2 petaflops of peak performance, which is double the current top systems in XD. In addition, Stampede will offer 128 next-generation NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) for remote visualization, 16 Dell servers with 1 terabyte of shared memory, and two GPUs each for large data analysis. Combined, Stampede will have a peak performance of 10 petaflops, 272 terabytes of total memory, and 14 petabytes of disk storage.
From Texas Advanced Computing Center
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