Fujitsu has announced the availability of the Prmiehpc FX10 supercomputer. Designed for use in new drug development, disaster prevention, or disaster mitigation, the supercomputer comes jam packed with up to a 1,024 rack configuration, delivering a super-high speed of 23.2 petaflops and 6 petabytes of memory. The Primehpc FX10 is powered by a 1.848GHz SPARC64 IXfx 16-core processor. Each processor is water-cooled to achieve standalone performance levels of 236.5 gigaflops and a performance per watt of over 2 gigaflops. Fujitsu will launch the Primehpc FX10 supercomputer in January 2011. [Fujitsu]
Cray is ready to launch a new supercomputer namely the Cray XK6. The highly anticipated new supercomputer will combine Cray’s Gemini interconnect, AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors (code-named “Interlagos”) and nVidia Tesla 20-Series GPUs to create a tightly-integrated supercomputing system upgradeable to more than 50 petaflops (quadrillions of operations/second) of compute power. Upgradeable from Cray XT4, Cray XT5, Cray XT6 or Cray XE6 systems, the Cray XK6 system is expected to be available in the second half of 2011. It can be configured in a single cabinet with tens of compute nodes, to a multi-cabinet system with tens of thousands of compute nodes. The first customer inline for the a brand new Cray XK6 supercomputer is the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Manno, which develops and promotes technical and scientific services for the Swiss research community in the field of HPC. [Press Release]
Fujitsu has released Japan’s Next-Generation Supercomputer, nicknamed the K computer. The Fujitsu supercomputer is a central part of the High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI) initiative led by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The supercomputer system consists of more than 800 computer racks, each installed with ultrafast CPUs, in a massively interconnected network, crystallizing Fujitsu’s leading-edge technologies for high performance and high reliability. [FarEastGizmos]
SGI today announced the immediate availability of Octane III, the company’s first personal supercomputer that provides whisper-quiet operations, easy-to-use features, low maintenance requirements and support for standard office power outlets. The Octane III supports up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory for unparalleled performance. It is also easily configurable with single- and dual-socket node choices, and provides a wide selection of performance, storage, graphics, GP-GPU and integrated networking options.
The Octane III is currently available in a variety of powerful configurations:
- Ten dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based nodes.
- One dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based workstation with advanced nVidia graphics and/or GP-GPU card support.
- Nineteen single-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 3400 series-based nodes.
- Nineteen single-socket, Dual-Core Intel Atom processor-based nodes.
In addition, this personal supercomputer supports Microsoft HPC Server 2008, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems. Linux configurations include SGI ProPack and ISLE cluster management software. The SGI Octane III Personal Supercomputer with a basic configuration is priced at $7,995. [SGI]
