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Welcome toHP-CAST-NTIG

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Neolith

• HP ProLiant DL140 G3

• 805 nodes

• 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, 2.33 GHz

• 16–32GB RAM

• Cisco Infiniband switches

• 44.46 TFlop/s Linpack

• Used by research groups from all Swedish universities

• The largest computer ever for academic use in Sweden

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Neolith ranked 23 (November 2007)

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Bore and Gimle

• Two HP DL160 G5 systems

• Total of 140 nodes • 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon

processors, 2.8 GHz, 1600 MHz FSB

• 16 GB RAM

• 12.5 TFlop/s peak performance

• For weather forecasts and research at SMHI (the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)

• In full use by the end of June 2008

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NSC – National Supercomputer Centre

• One of the largest academic supercomputing centres in Sweden

• Offering access to a diversity of architectural and data storage solutions

• Over 200 scientific users

• Total NSC staff of 21 persons

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National Collaborations

• Scientific community– SNIC – Swedish National Infrastructure for

Computing(at the Swedish Research Council)

– Research groups at Linköping University and other universities

• SMHI

• Saab

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International Collaborations

• NDGF – Nordic DataGrid Facility– WLCG – Worldwide LHC Computing Grid project– BioGrid

• PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

• EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-science

• HPC4U – Highly Predictable Cluster for Internet Grids

• ENES-IS – InfraStructure for the European Network for Earth System modelling

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Welcome toHP-CAST-NTIG

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