Good News, Everybody!
Posted on 8 July, 2010
Mississippi State University is now home to one of the world’s greenest supercomputers, according to the newly released Green500 list.
The list ranks the MSU supercomputer, named Talon, as the most energy efficient general-purpose supercomputer in the world, and the ninth most energy efficient system overall. Green500 rates the world’s most powerful supercomputers by the number of calculations performed for every watt of power that they consume.
That thing up there, that is a super computer. Not the room-sized ones from a few years back. It amazes me how much smaller they’re getting.
The computer is a 256 node IBM iDataPlex. Each node has two hexa-core Intel X5660 processors clocked at 2.8 GHz, 24 GB of RAM, and QDR InfiniBand to connect it all together. In all, there are 3072 cores and 6 TB of memory. And not a disk in sight (that duty, I’m assuming, belongs to the massive data center you see in the background).
I’m so proud of the school. Go State!
