This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Brianbncar (talk | contribs) at 22:34, 12 June 2012 (This is the first in a series of edits to update this page. I work for NCAR, and my new information has been reviewed and approved by senior management.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 22:34, 12 June 2012 by Brianbncar (talk | contribs) (This is the first in a series of edits to update this page. I work for NCAR, and my new information has been reviewed and approved by senior management.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Yellowstone will be the inaugural computing resource at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is being installed, tested, and readied for production in the summer of 2012. Yellowstone will be a highly capable petascale system designed for conducting breakthrough scientific research in the interdisciplinary field of Earth system science.
Yellowstone will be an IBM iDataPlex supercomputer system, consisting of 4,662 nodes, each with two Intel Sandy Bridge EP processors, for a total of 74,592 processor cores and 149.2 terabytes of memory. Nodes will be connected using a Mellanox FDR InfiniBand full fat tree. Nodes will run Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6.
The central file and data storage resource, called GLADE, will consist of file system servers and storage devices that will be linked to the supercomputer systems and eventually provide 16.42 petabytes of usable disk space.
The Yellowstone system features 9.7 million times the computational rate, 3.4 million times the disk capacity, and 19 million times the central memory size of one of the world’s first supercomputers, the Cray 1-A, which supported NCAR’s computational science between 1977 and 1989.
References
- "Yellowstone", NCAR Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) website: Resources. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
- "NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center Fact Sheet", University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) website, Retrieved 2012-06-12.
- NCAR Advances Weather Research Capabilities With IBM Supercomputing Technology, IBM News Release, 08 Nov 2011.
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/10/ncar_yellowstone_super_ibm
- http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35946.wss
- http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/management/SSC/Presentations/yellowstone.pdf