SC Conference - Activity Details
Jülich Research on Petaflops Architectures Project
Primary Session Leader:
Gilad Shainer
(Mellanox Technologies)
Secondary Session Leader:
| Thomas Lippert (Forschungzentrum Juelich) |
| Thursday, 12:15PM - 01:15PM |
| Room D135-136 |
The JuRoPa II, one of the leading European PetaScale supercomputer projects, is currently being constructed at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia - one of the largest interdisciplinary research centers in Europe. The new systems were being built through an innovative alliance between Mellanox, Bull, Intel, Sun Microsystems, ParTec, and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre; the first such collaboration in the world. This new 'best-of-breed' system, one of Europe’s most powerful, will support advanced research in many areas such as health, information, environment, and energy. It consists of two closely coupled clusters, JuRoPA, with more than 200 Teraflop/s performance, and HPC-FF, with more than 100 Teraflop/s. The latter will be dedicated for the European fusion research community. The session will introduce the project and the initiative, how it will affect future supercomputers systems, and how it will contribute to Petascale scalable software development.
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