RedNova: SGI Technology to Power Germany’s National Supercomputing System Center at LRZ

“After searching the world over for the most powerful computing
technology, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)
has selected the latest generation of SGI Altix systems from
Silicon Graphics to power Germany’s new national supercomputing
system. The new system, which eventually will incorporate 3,328
dual-core Intel Itanium 2 processors, will be capable of generating
69 trillion calculations per second of performance, effectively
boosting the computing capacity at Germany’s Leibniz Computing
Center (LRZ) 30-fold. LRZ, the BAdw computing center, also will
deploy a 660-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage solution to accommodate
its rapidly growing stockpile of scientific of data…”

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