The multi-million pound ARCHER (Academic Research Computing High End Resource) supercomputer will be unveiled at the University of Edinburgh today Tuesday March 25,2014.
It is the most powerful computer system in the UK and will provide high performance computing support for research and industry projects across UK
The £43million ARCHER (Academic Research Computing High End Resource) supercomputer, pictured, is capable of more than one million billion calculations every second and will support research projects
ARCHER SUPERCOMPUTER -FACTS
The building housing the ARCHER system is among the greenest computer centres in the world, with cooling costs of only eight pence for every pound spent on power.
The machine uses Cray’s XC30 hardware, while its Intel Xeon E5-2600v2 processors provide performance, scalability, and maximise energy efficiency.
Its twin rows of black cabinets are supported by the newly installed UK Research Data Facility.
ARCHER consists of 3008 compute nodes, each one featuring two 12-core E5-2697 v2 (2.7 GHz) Ivy Bridge processors.
Standard nodes contain 64GB shared between the two processors and a small number of high-memory nodes that contain 128GB of memory.
The Cray XC30 compute nodes are connected together using the Aries interconnect system in a Dragonfly topology.
Four compute nodes are connected to an Aries router, 188 nodes are grouped into a cabinet and two cabinets make up a group.
Archer has 84 optical links per group which enables a peak bisection bandwidth of 7,200 GB/a over the whole system.
The MPI latency on Aries is approximately 1.3μs with an additional 100ns of latency when communicating over the optical links.
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