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SGI's Altix ICE powers NASA Pleiades Supercomputer
(EquityBites Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Provider of HPC and data centre solutions SGI (Nasdaq:SGI) today announced that NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, was certified by the TOP500 list as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world as measured by the LINPACK Benchmark.
The TOP500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The fastest supercomputer on the November 2009 list based on an open systems approach (commodity processor, operating system and interconnect), the Pleiades supercomputer ranked sixth overall.
The supercomputers is powered by SGI's Altix ICE 8200EX, which helps the world's most sophisticated HPC installations solve the most complex scientific computing problems.
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