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NERSC's IBM 'Bassi' Shows Formidable Computing Power
The NERSC IBM p575 POWER 5 system, named Bassi, is a distributed memory computer with 888 processors available to run scientific computing applications. The machine is named in honor of Laura Bassi, a noted Newtonian physicist of the eighteenth century. Each Bassi processor has a theoretical peak performance of 7.6 GFlops. During the acceptance testing, users reported that codes ran from 3 to 10 times faster on the new cluster, Bassi, than on NERSC's other IBM supercomputer, leading one tester to call the system the “best machine I have seen.”
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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NERSC's IBM 'Bassi' Shows Formidable Computing Power
The NERSC IBM p575 POWER 5 system, named Bassi, is a distributed memory computer with 888 processors available to run scientific computing applications. The machine is named in honor of Laura Bassi, a noted Newtonian physicist of the eighteenth century. Each Bassi processor has a theoretical peak performance of 7.6 GFlops. During the acceptance testing, users reported that codes ran from 3 to 10 times faster on the new cluster, Bassi, than on NERSC's other IBM supercomputer, leading one tester to call the system the “best machine I have seen.”
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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