The Columbia supercluster makes it possible for NASA to achieve breakthroughs in science and engineering for the agency's missions and Vision for Space Exploration. Columbia's highly advanced architecture is also being made available to a broader national science and engineering community.
Columbia System Facts
Manufacturer - SGI
Nodes
Type
Speed
Cache
11 Altix 3700 (512 cores)
Madison
1.5 GHz
6MB
3 Altix 3700-BX2 (512 cores)
Madison
1.5 GHz
6MB
5 Altix 3700-BX2 (512 cores)
Madison
1.6 GHz
9MB
1 Altix 4700 (512 cores)
Montecito
1.6 GHz
9MB
1 Altix 4700 (2048 cores)
Montecito
1.6 GHz
9MB
2 Altix 4700 (1024 cores)
Montvale
1.6 GHz
9MB
23 Total Compute Nodes (14,336 Total Cores)
System Architecture
304 compute node cabinets
88.88 teraflop/s theoretical peak (Original 10,240 system - 63 Tflop/s)
Subsystems
2 Data Life Cycle (DLM) systems
3 front-end nodes
Memory
Type - double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM)