Electra is a petascale supercomputer located at the Ames Research Center facility, manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2016 and commissioned at 2017.[1] This is the first modular supercomputer prototype designed by NASA, as part of its research on making supercomputing more efficient and environment-friendly. Its research resulted in the Aitken supercomputer, destined for Moon landing and related research.[2]
| Electra | |
|---|---|
| Design | |
| Manufacturer | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| Release date | 2016 |
| Casing | |
| Power | 1,685.73 KW |
| System | |
| Operating system | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server |
| CPU | Intel Xeon Gold 6148 |
| Memory | 589,824 GB |
| FLOPS | 8.32 petaflops |
Electra was in 12th place among the most powerful supercomputers in the United States, and 33rd place in the world, in the TOP500 list at November, 2018.[3]
It has 2,304 HPE SGI 8600 and SGI ICE X nodes, each with a second generation Intel Xeon dual CPU, delivering up to 8.32 theoretical petaflops, and 5.44 petaflops (LINPACK) as of June 2019.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Electra Supercomputer". www.nas.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- ^ Mahoney, Erin (2019-04-09). "NASA Accepts Challenge to Send American Astronauts to Moon in 2024". NASA. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- ^ "Electra - HPE SGI 8600/SGI ICE-X, E5-2680V4/ Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz, Infiniband EDR/FDR-56 IB | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites". www.top500.org. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
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