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The Pleiades aka Nasa's Supercomputer
What is the Pleiades?
Image result for pleiades computerThe Pleiades, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling NASA scientists and engineers to conduct modeling and simulation for NASA projects. This distributed-memory SGI/HPE ICE cluster is connected with InfiniBand in a dual-plane hypercube technology.
The system contains the following types of Intel Xeon processors: E5-2680v4 (Broadwell), E5-2680v3 (Haswell), E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge), and E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge). The Pleiades is named after the astronomical open star cluster of the same name.
System Architecture
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  • Manufacturer: SGI/HPE
  • 158 racks (11,207 nodes)
  • 7.09 Pflop/s peak cluster
  • 5.95 Pflop/s LINPACK rating
  • 175 Tflop/s HPCG rating
  • Total CPU cores: 241,324
  • Total memory: 927 TB
  • 3 racks (83 nodes total) enhanced with NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs)
    • 614,400 CUDA cores
    • 0.646 Pflop/s total

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