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Impressive and elegant new German supercomputer: Specifications: HPC Cluster ("blizzard") IBM p575 "Power6" cluster water cooled 16 dual core CPUs per node Total size: 264 nodes, 8448 cores 249 compute nodes 12 I/O nodes 3 interactive nodes 18,8 GigaFlops/core Total system peak performance: 158 TeraFlops/s Top500: Rank 27 in 06/09 20 TeraByte memory 3 PetaByte GPFS file system (additional 3 PetaByte in 2011) 8 x Qlogic 288 port 4 x DDR Infiniband switches bandwidth: 16 GigaByte/s node to node (bidirectional ) 25.4 km Infiniband cables http://www.dkrz.de/dkrz/about/hardware/HPC_Cluster But Blizzard is connected to the Data archive: HPSS: High Performance Storage System 6 Sun StorageTek SL8500 tape libraries 8 robots per library 10 000 media slots per library 73 tape drives total capacity: 60 PetaByte. 60.000 media (T10000 A/B, LTO4, 9940B and 9840C ) 500 TeraByte disk cache projected fill rate: 10 PetaByte/year bidirectional bandwidth: 3

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