#1 in Trends Become a Trend Hunter:   Login or Join Now
Trends Logo
   ALL    Tech    Fashion    Sex    Pop Culture    Celebs    Ads    Business    Eco    Art & Design    Life    Luxury    Science    Bizarre   More [+/-]
Ben PreissBen Preiss
485 Trends
1,325,000 Views
67 Comments

SUBSCRIBE
Twitter Trends
Facebook Trends
Trend Report Newsletter
Trend Hunter TV
Trend Hunter Mobile
Trend Hunter RSS


Computing With God Edit
Chapel Installs Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer


Digg this TrendStumble this TrendShare this TrendEmailthis TrendEmbed This TrendShare This Trend


Computing With God
Chapel Installs Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer
Computing With God - Chapel Installs Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer (GALLERY) 2
Computing With God - Chapel Installs Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer (GALLERY) 3

Computing With God - Chapel Installs Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer (GALLERY)
Chapel Installs Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer
Published: Aug 26, 07
Views: 2,967

Supercomputers are generally bought by governments and top universities and housed in areas that are off-limits to all but a select few. And while some may find the sight of a supercomputer awe-inspiring only a few would be inspired to pray, so it was an interesting choice for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to be installed in a former chapel.

The MareNostrum in Barcelona, Spain is the 9th largest supercomputer in the world, fifth fastest in the world and the largest in Europe is installed in a Chapel. The supercomputer consists of 2560 JS21 blade computing nodes, each with 2 dual-core IBM 64-bit PowerPC 970MP processors running at 2.3 GHz for 10240 CPUs in total. It has 20 TB of RAM and 280 TB of external disk storage for more persistent storage. Running on SUSE Linux it is capable of 62.63 teraflops and a peak performance of 94.21 teraflops. (newlaunches)

References:  blogs.sun, newlaunches

Filed In:  computers regional religious science social tech world








Reactions

FOUR WAYS TO REACT: vote, favorite, add more examples of Computing With God or comment about Chapel Installs Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer.


TREND HUNTER
is the world's largest trend spotting and cool hunting community. It is an explosion of cool trends and ideas, fueled by a global network of trend spotters and cool hunters. By tracking the evolution of cool, Trend Hunters stimulate creativity and generate breakthrough ideas.

About Us   Trends   Trend Reports   Tools   Store   RSS (98 Flavors)   Innovation Keynotes   Exploiting Chaos   Terms of Use   Tips / Contact     Join
0.2548 - Hosted by web1
Trends and Content Copyright © TREND HUNTER Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Computing With God