This SGI supercomputer is one of multiple systems selected to evaluate next-generation next-generation technology to meet NASA's future supercomputing requirements. The system is named "RTJones" to honor the late aerodynamics pioneer Robert Thomas (R.T.) Jones.
RTJones System Facts
Manufacturer - SGI
System Architecture
9 Cabinets - 8 compute (512 cores each), 1 service
43.5 Tflop/s cluster
Nodes
2 four-core processors per node
Xeon X5355 processors
Processor speed - 2.66GHz
Cache - 4MB per processor
Total cores: 4096
Subsystem
8 front-end nodes
Memory
Type - DDR2 FB-DIMMs
1GB per core, 8GB per node
Total Memory - 4 TB
Interconnects
Intranode - InfiniBand, 512 compute nodes
Two independent InfiniBand fabrics running at 4x DDR