‘Mira’ supercomputer will run a 10 petaflop cluster
In a landmark announcement, IBM has unveiled plans to build a 10 petaflop supercomputing cluster in the US.
The company said that the Blue Gene/Q system will be named ‘Mira’ and is currently slated to go online in 2012 at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. A spokesman at Argonne said that the Mira system will sport some 750,000 processing cores and 750 terabytes of memory.
In addition to use by the Laboratory, the Mira cluster will be made available for use to commercial, academic and government research projects around the world.
“Computation and supercomputing are critical to solving some of our greatest scientific challenges, like advancing clean energy and understanding the Earth’s climate,” said Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory associate laboratory director for computing, environment and life sciences.
“Argonne’s new IBM supercomputer will help address the critical demand for complex modeling and simulation capabilities, which are essential to improving our economic prosperity and global competitiveness.”
With a speed of 10 petaflops, the system will be capable of performing roughly 10 quadrillion calculations per second. The current leader of the Top500 supercomputing list, China’s Tianhe-1A, reaches speeds of 2.57 petaflops.
The Mira system will replace Intrepid, a Blue Gene/P system which went online in 2007. Currently, Intrepid ranks 13th on the Top500 list with a top speed of 458 teraflops.
IBM estimates that at its top speed, Mira will perform roughly 20 times faster than Intrepid.
For more information about IBM hardware visit applied-tech.co.uk
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