The fourth largest super on the list, nicknamed Tungsten, is installed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), is comprised of two-way Dell Corp PowerEdge 1750 servers with a total of 2,500 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon DP processors from Intel and rated at 9.8
teraflops.
The current goliath of supercomputing is Earth Simulator, built by NEC Corp for the Japanese government, which is rated at 40
teraflops. Earth Simulator is a parallel cluster of vector processors that run at 500MHz.
So going from approximately 4
Teraflops to 24
Teraflops is bound to need a lot of power right?
Combined, both systems will achieve a total theoretical peak performance of 691.7
teraflops, making the new supercomputer system the largest-scale system in the Kyushu region of Japan.
On a per processor basis, Big Ben is 2.4 times faster than LeMieux, which has 3,000 processors and provides six
teraflops of peak performance.
IBM's long-term goal is to demonstrate a TRIPS chip by 2010 that can jam 1
teraflops of computing power into a single chip.
The first system--called ASCI Purple-will offer the Department of Energy the world's first supercomputer capable of up to 100
teraflops, more than twice as fast as the most powerful computer in existence today.
At present, India's fastest supercomputer is housed at CSIR Center for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bengaluru, delivering a top performance of 303.9
teraflops. Telecom and IT minister, Kapil Sibal has supposedly written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, detailing a Rs.
Each node features two Intel Xeon X5650 processors, allowing for a total of 600 CPUs and a theoretical peak performance of 38.3
teraflops. The interconnect that manages inter-node communications is equipped with an InfiniBand QDR network interface, which enables data to be transferred at 4GB/s, while allowing for high-speed parallel calculations.