Japan's Institute of Fluid Science to Install New SGI Supercomputer

[Posted December 9, 2005 by cook]

SGI has announced the selection of an SGI 1280 processor supercomputer by Tohoku University's Institute of Fluid Science. "The new supercomputer, shipped this summer, is comprised of a scalable SGI(R) Altix(R) 3000 scalar parallel server based on the 64-bit Linux(R) OS, a vector parallel NEC computer, a scalable Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization system, external secondary storage systems and data archive systems, all of which are interconnected via high-speed network, enabling sharing of large files with the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage CXFS(TM) shared filesystem and the NEC GFS global file system attached to the Storage Area Network (SAN)."

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