Russia Builds Europe’s Largest Supercomputer
Apr 09, 2013
Russian scientists have announced plans to launch Europe’s largest supercomputer with a capacity of 10 PFLOPS, reports Cnews. The current computing power of the prototype is currently 523.8 teraflops. The array includes 3,300 CPU cores and occupies a space of 20 square meters.
The Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS MSC) has created the MVS-10P supercomputer with a capacity of 10 PFLOPS, which will become the most powerful computer in Europe, according to ITAR-TASS.
"The new MVS-10P is based on supercomputer architecture called RSK Tornado and represents a 3-fold increase in the computing capacity of MSC to achieve several unique performance, efficiency and manageability indicators," said Gennady Savin, the director of RAS MSC. "It represents exploratory research at the leading edge of supercomputing disciplines and resolves urgent and fundamental scientific problems within the Russian Academy of Sciences," he said.
To date, MSC has created a prototype of 523.8 teraflops. The prototype consists of 208 computing nodes, each of which consists of two 8-core processors (3,300 cores). The array covers an area of 20 square meters. In terms of energy efficiency, it is equal to 1949.3 MFLOPS per watt, and the prototype is on of the top thirty supercomputers in the world. This was achieved through RSK Tornado architecture, which is based on direct liquid cooled server boards.
"All of these innovations provide very high performance, compact size, high reliability and manageability, and low cost of ownership," said Alexie Shmelev, the executive director of RSK, adding that the solution is scalable to several dozen PFLOPS.
In 2013, there are plans to increase the system performance by up to 2 PFLOPS, according to Boris Shabanov, deputy director of RAS MSC, which will cost in the region of 100 million rubles. About 136 million rubles has so far been spent on the creation of the supercomputer, said Shabanov.
According to Top500.org, the latest list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the Titan system, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, is in first place with a maximum capacity is 17.6 PFLOPS and 8.2 MW of power consumption. It uses 506,000 cores.
Half of the ten most productive computing systems in the world are currently located in the U.S.
The most powerful Russian supercomputer to date is the Lomonosov system, located at Moscow State University. The latest revision of the ratings puts it in 26th place. Its maximum capacity is about 920 TFLOPS, and its power is 2.8 MW. The computer has 78,600 cores.
The Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS MSC) has created the MVS-10P supercomputer with a capacity of 10 PFLOPS, which will become the most powerful computer in Europe, according to ITAR-TASS.
"The new MVS-10P is based on supercomputer architecture called RSK Tornado and represents a 3-fold increase in the computing capacity of MSC to achieve several unique performance, efficiency and manageability indicators," said Gennady Savin, the director of RAS MSC. "It represents exploratory research at the leading edge of supercomputing disciplines and resolves urgent and fundamental scientific problems within the Russian Academy of Sciences," he said.
To date, MSC has created a prototype of 523.8 teraflops. The prototype consists of 208 computing nodes, each of which consists of two 8-core processors (3,300 cores). The array covers an area of 20 square meters. In terms of energy efficiency, it is equal to 1949.3 MFLOPS per watt, and the prototype is on of the top thirty supercomputers in the world. This was achieved through RSK Tornado architecture, which is based on direct liquid cooled server boards.
"All of these innovations provide very high performance, compact size, high reliability and manageability, and low cost of ownership," said Alexie Shmelev, the executive director of RSK, adding that the solution is scalable to several dozen PFLOPS.
In 2013, there are plans to increase the system performance by up to 2 PFLOPS, according to Boris Shabanov, deputy director of RAS MSC, which will cost in the region of 100 million rubles. About 136 million rubles has so far been spent on the creation of the supercomputer, said Shabanov.
According to Top500.org, the latest list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the Titan system, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, is in first place with a maximum capacity is 17.6 PFLOPS and 8.2 MW of power consumption. It uses 506,000 cores.
Half of the ten most productive computing systems in the world are currently located in the U.S.
The most powerful Russian supercomputer to date is the Lomonosov system, located at Moscow State University. The latest revision of the ratings puts it in 26th place. Its maximum capacity is about 920 TFLOPS, and its power is 2.8 MW. The computer has 78,600 cores.