NCSA Selects Dell for Large-Scale Supercomputing Cluster to Drive Advanced Research; Cluster Promises to Rank Among the World's Most Powerful Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LinuxWorld San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 2003 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003 Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) has been selected by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (body, World-Wide Web) National Center for Supercomputing Applications - (NCSA) The birthplace of the first version of the Mosaic World-Wide Web browser. Address: Urbana, IL, USA. http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/. (NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ) at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
Research conducted on NCSA systems includes: studying the evolution, size and structure of the universe, investigating theories on the lifecycle of stars like the Sun, modeling severe storms, studying the human genome The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is composed of 24 distinct pairs of chromosomes (22 autosomal + X + Y) with a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. and biological processes, advancing the drug design process and more. The Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. servers will be linked to form a high-performance computing cluster (HPCC HPCC - High Performance Computing and Communications ) with a theoretical peak performance of 17.7 trillion floating point operations per second Noun 1. trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system teraflop computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable (TFLOPS See teraFLOPS. ) that promises to rank among the world's most powerful systems. Such performance capabilities would rank this cluster as the world's third most powerful system on the Top 500 List of supercomputers (www.top500.org) and will increase NCSA's total computing power to close to 24 TFLOPS. As one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, NCSA's reputation and leadership in high-performance computing, networking and developing innovative software applications is world-renowned. NCSA, a long-time advocate of distributed computing infrastructures for supercomputing, selected Dell for its largest cluster because of the performance, support and value of Dell HPCC solutions. "NCSA's reputation rests on being a leader in cutting-edge supercomputing for science and engineering research and in developing new computing technologies and infrastructure," said Dan Reed, director of NCSA. "We are pioneering new performance capabilities for standards-based clusters and supercomputing applications. Dell was able to provide excellent performance and value through its products, programs and partnerships to further these efforts." "The new NCSA cluster shows Dell's ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions at the highest-end of enterprise computing," said John Mullen, vice president, Dell Higher Education. "Dell's HPCC solutions offer high-performance at approximately 10 percent of the cost of a proprietary platform -- a value proposition that continues to be well-received in academia and government organizations, and in global corporations." About NCSA's Cluster NCSA's main computational cluster uses 1,280 dual Intel Xeon 3.05 processor PowerEdge 1750 servers that will be networked with Myrinet 2000 high-speed interconnects and running Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. . This will be supported with 106 PowerEdge servers providing I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output services with 120 TB of storage and 64-node Myrinet networked cluster for applications testing and development. Platform Computing software will provide central management of the computing resources in the cluster, and manage the users' job submissions and executions. Dell OpenManage software will monitor the health and the utilization of all the systems in the cluster. The Dell cluster is scheduled to be operational at NCSA's facilities in the fall of 2003. For more information regarding Dell HPCC program please visit: http://www.dell.com/hpcc Visit http://www.ncsa.edu for more information on NCSA. About Dell Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL) is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Company revenue for the past four quarters totaled $36.9 billion. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained at www.dell.com. Dell is a trademark of Dell. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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