HPCx Technology Phase 1
Phase 1 (Dec. 2002): 3 TFlop/s Rmax Linpack
- 40 Regatta-H SMP compute systems (1.28 TB memory)
- 32 x 1.3GHz processors, 32 GB memory; 4 x 8-way LPARs
- 2 Regatta-H I/O systems
- 16 x 1.3GHz processors (Regatta-HPC), 4 GPFS LPARS
- 2 HSM/backup LPARS, 18TB EXP500 fibre-channel global filesystem
- Switch Interconnect
- Existing SP Switch2 with "Colony" PCI adapters in all LPARs (20 us latency, 350 MB/s bandwidth)
- Each compute node has two connections into switch fabric (dual plane)
- 160 x 8-way compute nodes in total
- Ranked #9 in the TOP500 list (November 2002)