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The Center for Computational Research (CCR) at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (UB) has installed an 834-node Dell high-performance computing cluster.
The new cluster is made up of Dell PowerEdge SC1425, 1850 and the Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. It has a theoretical peak performance of more than 10 teraFLOPs (TF), with an anticipated sustained performance of more than 7TF. The installation brings the number of processors in UB's CCR to nearly 7,000 and extends the center's theoretical peak performance from approximately 12 trillion floating point operations per second (TF) to approximately 22TF, ranking it among the 50 fastest supercomputing clusters in the world.
CCR, part of UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, will use the new cluster to support research in life sciences, physical sciences, engineering and visualization. Even during installation, this machine was used extensively to render a number of animated videos that are currently being shown on MTV2. Russ Miller., director of CCR and UB Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said today's digital-driven society, in which research and discovery is often driven by simulation and modeling, requires high-end computing, including storage, networking, computing and visualization.
The Dell PowerEdge 1850 and 2850 servers are the foundation of Dell's vision for the scalable enterprise, providing customers with powerful standards-based building blocks for consolidation, databases, enterprise applications and high-performance computing. The Dell PowerEdge SC1425 is a IU server specifically designed to meet the requirements of supercomputing clusters and distributed Web farms, where performance and cost are customers'top priority.
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