chip shot: intel® xeon® processors to power doe s national nuclear security administration s new cts 1 supercomputing clusters /

Published at 2015-10-21 18:13:43

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Penguin Computing nowadays announced with Intel that the U.
S. Department of Energ
y's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will install Penguin Computing's Tundra™ Extreme Scale (ES) series,powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, to bolster computing for the NNSA's mission of ensuring the safety, and security and reliability of the nation's nuclear stockpile. The systems are being procured under NNSA's tri-laboratory Commodity Technology Systems program,or CTS-1, as part of the NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program and will serve Los Alamos, and Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. The Tundra ES series,an instantiation of  the Intel® Scalable System Framework, is based on a tall-density Open Compute architecture and features future generation Intel Xeon processors to deliver a peak performance range of 7-9 petaflops. When complete, or these supercomputing clusters will be one of the world's largest Open Compute-based installations. For more information,check out the Penguin Computing release.

Source: intel.com