A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe


	A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4bc86836-3e8a-433a-8226-199de8a1c0ac/0BB12AB2-D7A8-4070-AEF4-DA4CE7ABB076/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/" href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/" style="font-size: 11px;">royal.pingdom.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link to A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe" rel="bookmark" href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/" linkindex="17">A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/royal.pingdom.com/img/B773EFE1-74E8-48A2-925F-6024DEB5F8AD" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><P>What is now the fastest supercomputer in Europe was recently unveiled at a research institute in Jülich, Germany. The computer, named Jugene, is capable of a massive one trillion computing operations per second.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><P>Here are some facts about the Jugene supercomputer:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Based on IBM’s Blue Gene/P architecture.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Computing capacity: 1 petaflops/second.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">That equals the computing power of more than 50,000 PCs.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">294,912 processor cores.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Processor type: 32-bit PowerPC 450 at 850 MHz.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">144 terabytes of RAM.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Mounted in 72 racks.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Network bandwidth: 5.1 gigabyte/second with a 160 nanosecond latency.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Power input: 2.2 megawatts.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/02/a-look-inside-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-europe/"><P>Wish we could get one of these for Pingdom. Couldn’t cost all that much, could it? <IMG class="wp-smiley" alt=";)" src="http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" /> </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0BB12AB2-D7A8-4070-AEF4-DA4CE7ABB076/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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