Singapore Unveils Its First Petascale Supercomputer

ASPIRE 1 at the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore will support both academic and industrial high performance computing needs. Singapore has joined the ranks of countries with petascale supercomputing capabilities with the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore’s (NSCC) Advanced Supercomputer for Petascale Innovation, Research and Enterprise or ASPIRE 1. The one petaFLOPS system was unveiled by Mr. Peter Ho, chairman of the NSCC steering committee, at a ceremony held on December 20, 2016. ASPIRE 1 is based on x86 architecture supplied by Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd and comprises 1,288 nodes and 30,912 cores. The system has 13 petabytes of storage with an input/output burst rate of 500 gigabytes per second and a total memory of 229 terabytes.

 

 

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