Resources - 2009
Super Fast Molecular Simulator
Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST
Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST has scalar-parallel architecture, providing the total performance of 4096 GFLOPS by 10 nodes. Each node consists of 64 Cores (32 dual-core CPUs) and 256 GB of shared memory. The nodes are connected with the fiber inter-connect, and any pair of nodes can thereby communicate at the bandwidth of 160 Gbps using the message-passing library (MPI). The system is also equipped with a RAID disk device about 24 TB for temporal storage. This server is mainly used for large-scale molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo calculations, including application to biomolecules.
SGI Altix4700
SGI Altix4700 is a super-parallel computer with the peak performance of 4096 GFLOPS. This system consists of two node; one has 512 Cores (256 dual-core CPUs) with 6 TB shared memory, and the other 128 Cores (64 CPUs) with 2 TB, where the extensive shared memory is logically provided by the cc-NUMA architecture. As a peripheral configuration, the system has also a high-performance RAID disk device with the total effective amount of about 114 TB and with the I/O speed of 40Gbps. This I/O speed of the disk is nearly equivalent to that of the memory transfer. This system is particularly suitable to large and accurate calculations of electronic states and other purposes which require huge memory and/or disk space.
High performance molecular simulator
Hitachi SR16000
Hitachi SR16000 has a scalar-parallel architecture with shared memory, providing you the performance up to 5414 GFLOPS using 288 Cores. 1 node has 32 Cores and 2250 GB memory. Peripheral configuration the system has about 21 TB RAID disk device which provides you a huge amount of storage.