Columbia Supercomputer

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Columbia is a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics for NASA. The supercomputer was installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility in 2004.

According to the TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers, it entered the list in November 2004 at position 2,{{cite web]|accessdate=2007-05-22--> running at 51.87 FLOPS, or 51.87 trillion floating point calculations per second. By June 2007 it had dropped to position 13.It is composed of twenty Altix nodes each of which have 512 Intel Corporation Itanium 2 central processing units bringing the total number of processors to 10,240. It has 20 terabytes of RAM, 440 terabytes of storage, and 10 petabytes of archive storage. It was named in honor of the crew STS-107, who were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

The SGI Altix platform was selected due to a positive experience with Kalpana (supercomputer), a single Altix 512-CPU system operated by NASA Ames which was integrated into the Columbia supercomputer system.

The computers are connected together with a Voltaire InfiniBand ISR 9288 288 port network switch with transfer speeds of up to 10 gigabits (or 1250 megabytes) per second, 10 gigabit Ethernet and multiple 1 gigabit Ethernet nodes.

References External links

NASA Columbia homepage
TOP500 entry
"One Giant Leap" – SGI information on the construction of Columbia ( image gallery)
Press release from SGI
Press release from NASA

NAS Project: Columbia
Everything you want to know about NASAC ... Twenty years ago, the most powerful computer at NASA Ames ran at a speed of about 1 gigaflop (one billion calculations per second).

NAS Computing Resources - Columbia Supercomputer
Technical description of the 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center. ... The Columbia ...

Columbia (supercomputer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Columbia is a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics for NASA. The supercomputer was installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility in 2004.

Columbia (supercomputer) - Wikimedia Commons
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