{"id":6598,"date":"2013-12-14T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2013-12-14T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T09:20:07","slug":"asus-powered-supercomputer-rides-high-in-top500-and-green500-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/6598-asus-powered-supercomputer-rides-high-in-top500-and-green500-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUS-Powered Supercomputer Rides High in TOP500<\/span> and Green500 Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> servers drive world-leading supercomputer to high-ranking positions in global HPC<\/span> and energy-efficiency tables<\/h2>\n
2013\/12\/11<\/div>\n

ASUS<\/span> today announ\u00adced that its ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> ser\u00advers powered the SANAM<\/span> high-per\u00adfor\u00admance-com\u00adpu\u00adting (HPC<\/span>) clus\u00adter to secu\u00adre the num\u00adber 59 spot in the Novem\u00adber 2013 TOP500<\/span> table, the defi\u00adni\u00adti\u00adve list of the world\u2019s most powerful com\u00admer\u00adci\u00adal\u00adly available com\u00adpu\u00adters. The ASUS-powered SANAM<\/span> clus\u00adter also ran\u00adked 11th in the Novem\u00adber 2013 Green500 list of most ener\u00adgy-effi\u00adci\u00adent super\u00adcom\u00adpu\u00adters on the planet.<\/p>\n

ASUS<\/span> ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> ser\u00advers form the heart of the SANAM<\/span> high-per\u00adforming com\u00adpu\u00adting (HPC<\/span>) clus\u00adter, a joint super\u00adcom\u00adpu\u00adting pro\u00adject desi\u00adgned by Germany\u2019s Frank\u00adfurt Insti\u00adtu\u00adte for Advan\u00adced Stu\u00addies (FIAS<\/span>) and the King Abdu\u00adla\u00adziz City for Sci\u00adence and Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy (KACST<\/span>) in Sau\u00addi Ara\u00adbia to sup\u00adport natio\u00adnal-level sci\u00aden\u00adti\u00adfic research.<\/p>\n

The ASUS-powered SANAM<\/span> clus\u00adter deli\u00advers total pro\u00adces\u00adsing power of 532.6TFLOPS<\/span> and ener\u00adgy effi\u00adci\u00aden\u00adcy of 2.3GFLOPS<\/span>\/watt \u2014 world-class per\u00adfor\u00admance that\u2019s con\u00adfirm\u00aded by the latest TOP500<\/span> and Green500 charts.<\/p>\n

Supercomputing power delivered by ASUS<\/span> servers<\/h3>\n

The ASUS<\/span> ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> deli\u00advers the latest HPC<\/span> tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy, with supe\u00adri\u00ador par\u00adal\u00adlel pro\u00adces\u00adsing and Infi\u00adni\u00adBand\u2122, an inter\u00adcon\u00adnect tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy with high through\u00adput, low laten\u00adcy, qua\u00adli\u00adty of ser\u00advice (QoS) and fail\u00adover. ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> ser\u00advers sup\u00adport Infi\u00adni\u00adBand FDR<\/span> (four\u00adteen data rate) trans\u00adfers of up to 56Gbit\/s.<\/p>\n

The ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span>\u2019s archi\u00adtec\u00adtu\u00adre makes it an excel\u00adlent choice for hea\u00advy-duty cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adons and mode\u00adling-inten\u00adsi\u00adve appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. ASUS-powered SANAM<\/span> super\u00adcom\u00adpu\u00adters excel in fields such as aero\u00adspace, wea\u00adther fore\u00adcas\u00adting and simu\u00adla\u00adting che\u00admi\u00adcal reac\u00adtions and par\u00adtic\u00adle move\u00adment. The TOP500-ran\u00adked SANAM<\/span> HPC<\/span> clus\u00adter employs 210 ASUS<\/span> ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> ser\u00advers with 420 AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro\u2122 S10000<\/span> dual-GPU (gra\u00adphics-pro\u00adces\u00adsing unit) modu\u00adles and an array of 420 Intel Xeon\u00ae E5-2650<\/span> eight-core pro\u00adces\u00adsors \u2014 giving a total of 38,400 pro\u00adces\u00adsor cores.<\/p>\n

High power, high efficiency and highly scalable<\/h3>\n

The ASUS<\/span> ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> ser\u00adver that powered the SANAM<\/span> clus\u00adter to high posi\u00adti\u00adons in the world\u2019s most pres\u00adti\u00adgious HPC<\/span> and ener\u00adgy-effi\u00adci\u00aden\u00adcy tablets is both estab\u00adlished and trus\u00adted in many finan\u00adce, vir\u00adtua\u00adliza\u00adti\u00adon and high-end sci\u00aden\u00adti\u00adfic settings.<\/p>\n

The two-rack-unit (2U<\/span>) ser\u00adver is based on the dual Intel Xeon E5-2600<\/span> plat\u00adform with eight hot-swappable 3.5\u2011inch SATA<\/span> hard dri\u00adve cages and a 1+1\u2011redundant 1620W<\/span> 80 PLUS<\/span>\u00ae Pla\u00adti\u00adnum-cer\u00adti\u00adfied power sup\u00adp\u00adly that pro\u00advi\u00addes up to 94% ener\u00adgy effi\u00adci\u00aden\u00adcy. With nine PCI<\/span> Express (PCIe) 3.0 x16 expan\u00adsi\u00adon slots, the ASUS<\/span> ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> deli\u00advers high-den\u00adsi\u00adty com\u00adpu\u00adting power that is high\u00adly scalable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESC4000<\/span>\/FDR<\/span> G2<\/span> ser\u00advers dri\u00adve world-lea\u00adding super\u00adcom\u00adpu\u00adter to high-ran\u00adking posi\u00adti\u00adons in glo\u00adbal HPC<\/span> and ener\u00adgy-effi\u00adci\u00aden\u00adcy tables (\u2026) Wei\u00adter\u00adle\u00adsen \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","entry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}