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Nsf Awards $12 Million to Sdsc to Deploy Comet Supercomputer
The new Comet supercomputer, a Dell-based cluster based on Intel Xeon processors, is designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional and non-traditional research domains.
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The University of California, San Diego's Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has been awarded a $12 million U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to deploy Comet, a supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional as well as non-traditional research domains.
Comet, which will be capable of an overall peak performance of nearly 1 petaflop, will join the Gordon system as a resource within the NSF's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
"We are supporting Comet to provide a resource not just for the highest end users, but for scientists and engineers across a broad spectrum of disciplines," says Comet program director Barry Schneider.
Comet will be a Dell-based cluster based on next-generation Intel Xeon processors. "These new processors will deliver significant performance improvements to the NSF's general-purpose scientific workload, or the 99 percent, with a robust set of virtualization features that enable a broad spectrum of high-performance applications in a large memory, virtualized environment," says Intel's Mark Seager.
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