MareNostrum

Mare Nostrum (Latin Mare Nostrum 'our sea' was the Roman name of the Mediterranean ) is a supercomputer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. Mare Nostrum is on the 465th place in the international list for supercomputer TOP500 (June 2012).

Mare Nostrum used with 2.3 GHz IBM PowerPC 970MP working processors in a cluster architecture under the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 He currently has a RAM of 20.4 terabytes and has access to a disk storage of 370 terabytes. As an interconnection network is Myrinet used.

The supercomputer is intended for research in the life sciences, meteorology, and environmental science and for commercial applications in the pharmaceutical, automotive and aeronautics.

When starting up in November 2004, he developed a steady computing power of 20 teraflops when using 3,564 processors and got away with it # 4 on the TOP500. On 13 April 2005, the computer was booted up for the first time with its full computing power of 27 teraflops. In this new configuration, it reached number five on the issue June 2005 Compare with a total of 4,812 processors. After the upgrade to dual -core processors Mare Nostrum currently has 10,240 cores and reached the list in November 2008 with a performance of 63.8 TFLOPS as Spain's fastest system to 40th place .. In June 2012, it came in 465th place.

The complete installation was built in an old chapel and is surrounded by 5 -meter-high glass walls.