Tuesday, December 7, 2010

This is Pleiades, NASA's largest, most powerful supercomputer!

This is Pleiades, NASA's largest, most powerful supercomputer!
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NASA's largest, most powerful supercomputer, Pleiades, features a 56,832-processor Silicon Graphics International Altix ICE system. Pleiades' storage system, with an approximately 1.4 petabyte capacity, and the hyperwall-2 visualization system, featuring 128 screens, which measure 23-feet by 10-feet is located at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.
Credit: NASA

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