Tera 100
Encyclopedia
Tera 100 is a supercomputer
built by Bull SA
for the French
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
.
It was turned on on May 26, 2010. The computer, which is located in Essonne
is able to sustain around 1 petaFLOPs
maximum performance and a peak at 1.25 petaFLOPs
. It has 4300 Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca'), 140,000 Intel Xeon
7500 processor cores, 300 TB
of memory. The Interconnect is QDR InfiniBand
. The file system has a throughput of 500 GB/s and total storage of 20 PB
. It uses the SLURM
resource manager for scheduling batch jobs.
Tera 100 uses Bull XBAS Linux, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
derivative.
As of June 2011, TOP500
deems it the ninth fastest supercomputer in the world.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
built by Bull SA
Groupe Bull
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for the French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
The Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives or CEA, is a French “public establishment related to industrial and commercial activities” whose mission is to develop all applications of nuclear power, both civilian and military...
.
It was turned on on May 26, 2010. The computer, which is located in Essonne
Essonne
Essonne is a French department in the region of Île-de-France. It is named after the Essonne River.It was formed on 1 January 1968 when Seine-et-Oise was split into smaller departments.- History :...
is able to sustain around 1 petaFLOPs
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
maximum performance and a peak at 1.25 petaFLOPs
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
. It has 4300 Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca'), 140,000 Intel Xeon
Xeon
The Xeon is a brand of multiprocessing- or multi-socket-capable x86 microprocessors from Intel Corporation targeted at the non-consumer server, workstation and embedded system markets.-Overview:...
7500 processor cores, 300 TB
Terabyte
The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix tera means 1012 in the International System of Units , and therefore 1 terabyte is , or 1 trillion bytes, or 1000 gigabytes. 1 terabyte in binary prefixes is 0.9095 tebibytes, or 931.32 gibibytes...
of memory. The Interconnect is QDR InfiniBand
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable...
. The file system has a throughput of 500 GB/s and total storage of 20 PB
Petabyte
A petabyte is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB...
. It uses the SLURM
Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management
Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management is an opensource job scheduler used by many of the world's supercomputers and computer clusters. It provides three key functions. First it allocates exclusive and/or non-exclusive access to resources to users for some duration of time so they can...
resource manager for scheduling batch jobs.
Tera 100 uses Bull XBAS Linux, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...
derivative.
As of June 2011, TOP500
TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year...
deems it the ninth fastest supercomputer in the world.
See also
- Computer scienceComputer scienceComputer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
- ComputingComputingComputing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
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