Red Storm
Red Storm is a new Massively
Parallel Processor (MPP) computer designed to scale from a single
cabinet and relatively few processors to hundreds of cabinets and thousands
of processors. The system uses high production
volume commodity processors combined with a very high performance 3-D mesh
interconnect to produce high parallel efficiency on a broad spectrum of scientific
and engineering applications and has an excellent price/performance ratio.
Red Storm was developed jointly
by Cray Inc., and the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security
Administration's (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories. It was installed at
Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, in the winter of 2004.
The installation at Sandia operates
in a dual networkclassified (Red) and unclassified (Black)configuration.
The machine can be rapidly reconfigured to make all the compute nodes classified,
all the compute nodes unclassified, or, in normal operation, three-quarters
of the compute nodes available to either of the two networks
and one-quarter of the machine available to the other network.
System Facts:
- 284.16 teraOPS theoretical
peak performance
- 135 compute node cabinets
20 service and I/O node cabinets
20 Red/Black switch cabinets
- 12,960 compute node processors,
320 + 320 service and I/O node processors
- AMD Opteron 2.4
GHz dual-core processors and AMD Opteron 2.2 GHz quad-core processors
- 75 terabytes of DDR memory
- 1753 terabytes of disk
storage
- Linux/Catamount Operating Systems
- Approximately 3500 ft2 including disk systems
- 2.5 megawatts of power
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Red Storm Diagram
Contacts: James
L. Tomkins and Suzanne
Kelly
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Modified on: October 22, 2008
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