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Welcome toHP-CAST-NTIG
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Neolith
• HP ProLiant DL140 G3
• 805 nodes
• 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, 2.33 GHz
• 16–32GB RAM
• Cisco Infiniband switches
• 44.46 TFlop/s Linpack
• Used by research groups from all Swedish universities
• The largest computer ever for academic use in Sweden
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Neolith ranked 23 (November 2007)
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Bore and Gimle
• Two HP DL160 G5 systems
• Total of 140 nodes • 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon
processors, 2.8 GHz, 1600 MHz FSB
• 16 GB RAM
• 12.5 TFlop/s peak performance
• For weather forecasts and research at SMHI (the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)
• In full use by the end of June 2008
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NSC – National Supercomputer Centre
• One of the largest academic supercomputing centres in Sweden
• Offering access to a diversity of architectural and data storage solutions
• Over 200 scientific users
• Total NSC staff of 21 persons
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National Collaborations
• Scientific community– SNIC – Swedish National Infrastructure for
Computing(at the Swedish Research Council)
– Research groups at Linköping University and other universities
• SMHI
• Saab
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International Collaborations
• NDGF – Nordic DataGrid Facility– WLCG – Worldwide LHC Computing Grid project– BioGrid
• PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
• EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science
• HPC4U – Highly Predictable Cluster for Internet Grids
• ENES-IS – InfraStructure for the European Network for Earth System modelling
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Welcome toHP-CAST-NTIG
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