The supercomputer, named "Columbia" to honor the crew lost in the 2003 space shuttle accident, will revitalize NASA's computing resources with a single system - one that would put an astounding amount of supercomputing power into the Agency's hands.
The Columbia supercomputer, built from 20 SGI® Altix® systems, each powered by 512 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, promises to revolutionize the rate of scientific discovery at NASA. Columbia, achieved sustained performance of 51 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), eclipsing the performance of nearly every supercomputer in operation today.
Commenting on this remarkable achievement, Gilbert Soufan, General Manager, Middle East and Africa, SGI said, "The same technology is being adopted in the Middle East. Companies like Aramco and ZADCO have already acquired this technology to run their high performance computing applications. Another leader in adopting this new technology in Saudi Arabia was King Abdel Aziz City for Sciences and Technology."
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SGI, NASA and Intel build and deploy the most powerful supercomputer in record time
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, January 03 - 2005 at 10:46
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Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: SGI), the leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage has created history along with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Intel Corporation by building and deploying the most powerful supercomputer in a record time of 15 weeks.
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