Supercomputer Expected to Break Computing Power Record
Published June 26th, 2007
Sun Microsystems announced today that its hardware will power the largest supercomputer ever built, weighing in with 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of memory, 1.7 terabytes of disk space, and 504 teraflops of performance.
The computer, which has been dubbed “Ranger,” will be hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, Austin. It is due to go online on January 1, 2008.
Ranger costs $30 million in hardware alone, and an additional $29 million for staffing and maintenance — and is being entirely funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
nder the hood, Ranger’s brain will be built from 16,744 quad-core AMD Opteron processors. The machine’s production timeline is dependent on how fast AMD can crank out the as-yet-unreleased chips, Bechtolsheim said.
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