Big Cluster to be delivered by US company SGI

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava and a prestigious US company Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI®) signed today the delivery contract for the so-called Big Cluster. During the first half of 2015 will be installed in Ostrava a petaflop-class system. Its performance will thus surpass almost twentyfold the current Ostrava’s supercomputer Anselm. With the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and Xeon PhiTM coprocessors, the supercomputer in Ostrava will become one of systems with the highest performance in Europe that use this type of chips.

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