Fairbanks, Alaska - The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) and Cray Inc. (Nasdaq NM: CRAY) announced today an agreement that places a Cray SX-6 at ARSC. ARSC is pleased to be able to offer this leading technology to the wider High Performance Computing (HPC) community for testing and evaluation. This is the first installation of a Cray SX-6 system in the United States under the OEM agreement concluded last year between Cray Inc. and NEC. New users should be able to access the system by mid-July.
"Providing access to SX-6 technology, the same fundamental technology found in the Earth Simulator, will greatly advantage computational scientists and staff supporting HPC resources," said Dr. Frank Williams, ARSC's director. "I'm looking forward to a robust evaluation of this additional tool for solving the largest and most difficult of computational problems." The system, named Rime, has eight processors, 64 gigabytes of memory, 1 terabyte disk and a 500 MHz system clock. System peak performance is 64 GFLOPS. http://www.arsc.edu/pubs/bulletins/SX6Install.shtml Jeroen's comment: now *that* is what I call computing power! :-) Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
