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ASUS-Powered Supercomputer Rides High in TOP500 and Green500 Lists

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ESC4000/FDR G2 servers drive world-leading supercomputer to high-ranking positions in global HPC and energy-efficiency tables

2013/12/11

ASUS today announ­ced that its ESC4000/FDR G2 ser­vers powered the SANAM high-per­for­mance-com­pu­ting (HPC) clus­ter to secu­re the num­ber 59 spot in the Novem­ber 2013 TOP500 table, the defi­ni­ti­ve list of the world’s most powerful com­mer­ci­al­ly available com­pu­ters. The ASUS-powered SANAM clus­ter also ran­ked 11th in the Novem­ber 2013 Green500 list of most ener­gy-effi­ci­ent super­com­pu­ters on the planet.

ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 ser­vers form the heart of the SANAM high-per­forming com­pu­ting (HPC) clus­ter, a joint super­com­pu­ting pro­ject desi­gned by Germany’s Frank­furt Insti­tu­te for Advan­ced Stu­dies (FIAS) and the King Abdu­la­ziz City for Sci­ence and Tech­no­lo­gy (KACST) in Sau­di Ara­bia to sup­port natio­nal-level sci­en­ti­fic research.

The ASUS-powered SANAM clus­ter deli­vers total pro­ces­sing power of 532.6TFLOPS and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy of 2.3GFLOPS/watt — world-class per­for­mance that’s con­firm­ed by the latest TOP500 and Green500 charts.

Supercomputing power delivered by ASUS servers

The ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 deli­vers the latest HPC tech­no­lo­gy, with supe­ri­or par­al­lel pro­ces­sing and Infi­ni­Band™, an inter­con­nect tech­no­lo­gy with high through­put, low laten­cy, qua­li­ty of ser­vice (QoS) and fail­over. ESC4000/FDR G2 ser­vers sup­port Infi­ni­Band FDR (four­teen data rate) trans­fers of up to 56Gbit/s.

The ESC4000/FDR G2’s archi­tec­tu­re makes it an excel­lent choice for hea­vy-duty cal­cu­la­ti­ons and mode­ling-inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons. ASUS-powered SANAM super­com­pu­ters excel in fields such as aero­space, wea­ther fore­cas­ting and simu­la­ting che­mi­cal reac­tions and par­tic­le move­ment. The TOP500-ran­ked SANAM HPC clus­ter employs 210 ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 ser­vers with 420 AMD Fire­Pro™ S10000 dual-GPU (gra­phics-pro­ces­sing unit) modu­les and an array of 420 Intel Xeon® E5-2650 eight-core pro­ces­sors — giving a total of 38,400 pro­ces­sor cores.

High power, high efficiency and highly scalable

The ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 ser­ver that powered the SANAM clus­ter to high posi­ti­ons in the world’s most pres­ti­gious HPC and ener­gy-effi­ci­en­cy tablets is both estab­lished and trus­ted in many finan­ce, vir­tua­liza­ti­on and high-end sci­en­ti­fic settings.

The two-rack-unit (2U) ser­ver is based on the dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 plat­form with eight hot-swappable 3.5‑inch SATA hard dri­ve cages and a 1+1‑redundant 1620W 80 PLUS® Pla­ti­num-cer­ti­fied power sup­p­ly that pro­vi­des up to 94% ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy. With nine PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x16 expan­si­on slots, the ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 deli­vers high-den­si­ty com­pu­ting power that is high­ly scalable.