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Supercomputer in Pakistan
ScREC
ActiveSeptember 2012
OperatorsResearch Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), NUST
LocationResearch Centre for Modeling and Simulation, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
Storage21.6 TeraByte
Speed132 TeraFLOPS
PurposeMultipurpose
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ScREC is a supercomputer developed by the Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS) at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan. With a 132 teraflops performance, it is currently the fastest supercomputer in Pakistan.

System specifications

ScREC is able to perform parallel computing and has a performance speed of 132 teraFLOPS (trillion operations per second). It is the fastest running graphics processing unit (GPU) parallel computing system to have been developed in Pakistan. The supercomputer has multi-core processors and graphics co-processors, with an inter-process communication speed of 40 gigabits per second. According to system specifications, the computer cluster consists of 66 nodes equipped with 30,992 processor cores. Additional component details include:

  • 32 dual quad core computer nodes (256 processor cores)
  • 32 Nvidia graphics processing units
  • QDR InfiniBand interconnection
  • 21.6 TB storage

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fastest supercomputer is out". Daily Times (Pakistan). 19 September 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2012.

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  • Centre of International Peace and Stability
  • Chinese Studies Centre
  • Samar Mubarakmand Research Institute of Microwave and Millimetre Wave Studies
  • Research Center for Modeling and Simulation
  • US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Energy
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