The peak performance of the supercomputer based on Intel® Xeon® processors and with Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors SE10X is equal to 236.8 TFLOPS and its energy efficiency has enhanced previous record in Russia and CIS over 2.5X times achieving level of 995 MFLOPS per Watt.
SC12, Salt Lake City, November 12, 2012. - At SC12, largest International Conference for High Performance Computing, RSC Group (booth #4721), the leading Russian and CIS full cycle developer and HPC solutions provider, announced that the new RSC Tornado SUSU energy efficient supercomputer is being created at a supercomputing center in South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk) on the basis of existing infrastructure previously deployed by RSC. This is the largest university supercomputing system with Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors SE10X in Europe. The peak performance of this powerful system, which includes 192 computing nodes based on innovative RSC Tornado architecture with direct liquid cooling, is equal to 236.8 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second).
"The latest Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor improves performance and energy efficiency of our solution with direct liquid cooling based on RSC Tornado architecture allowing to achieve more than 2.5X energy efficiency improvement" said Aleksey Shmelev, Chief Executive Officer at RSC Group.
RSC Tornado SUSU supercomputer will significantly increase computing resources of South Ural State University. The system will be used to solve a wide range of scientific and technical and industrial tasks, the number of which currently exceeds 250 in SUSU supercomputer center project list.
"Our university productively cooperates with Intel Corporation and RSC Group in the development of high performance solution for many years, which allowed us to create a de-facto most powerful supercomputing center both in Ural Federal District and the Eastern part of Russia – from Ural to the Far East. Several generations of SUSU supercomputers have already been created based on Intel architectures. And our new RSC Tornado SUSU supercomputer is Europe’s first university computing system equipped with the latest Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. This powerful and energy efficient supercomputer with the peak performance of 236.8 TFLOPS will allow us to perform new large-scale scientific research and solve a wider range of practical socioeconomic tasks with the goal to modernize the economy of both Ural Region and the whole country" said Aleksander Shestakov, Rector of South Ural State University.
"In recent years Russia has actively developed computing centers at the national level, primarily in the leading universities. The creation of the Europe’s largest university supercomputer with the latest Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors in South Ural State University further confirms Russian government's commitment to improve Russia's competitiveness on the world stage by actively developing the intellectual potential of the country and the use of the latest, high-performance and energy efficient Intel technologies" said Christian Morales, Intel’s Vice-President and General Manager in EMEA.
For more details please visit RSC website.