Columbia (Supercomputer)
Columbia is the name of a supercomputer, which was taken by the American space agency NASA in operation in 2004. It is mainly used for simulations to calculate, for example, the behavior of rockets or the Space Shuttle during flight.
The SGI Altix computer is in the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California and the time of its commissioning with 42.7 TFLOPS the fastest computer in the world. In the current stage, it consists of 27 machines, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors for a total 13,824 processors with a capacity of 66.57 TFLOPS. The operating system is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is used.
In June 2005, he finished in the TOP500 list of the 500 fastest computer systems fourth place in the list of June 2009 and 58th place in November 2011, only more rank 268
His name Columbia he has received in memory and honor of the crashed on 1 February 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia.