Technically Speaking

The godfather of supercomputing, Cray, plans to release a version of its Red Storm scientific platform, which promises to be the fastest computer in the world, for the enterprise market, next year.

The original Red Storm is being built under the US Energy Department’s Accelerated Strategic Computing initiative, for tasks such as simulating nuclear explosions in the Department’s Sandia Labs. It will be finished in mid-2004 and is expected to outpace the current fastest supercomputer, NEC’s Earth Simulator, with peak processing of 40 Teraflops, the equivalent of 40 trillion calculations per second.

A commercial version would be based on the same fundamental design – a massively parallel architecture based on 10,000 AMD Opteron Model 246 processors, the Linux operating system and the HyperTransport interface technology for chip-to-chip communication.

Source:Rethink Research Associates

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