Iowa State’s Newest Supercomputer Cystorm
Sun Machine Boasts 28.16 Trillion Calculations per Second
Sun along with the National Science Foundation and Iowa State University have facilitated the institution’s second supercomputer known as Cystorm that boasts a peak performance of 28.16 trillion calculations per second. The 3,200 computer processor cores powering Cystorm provide five times the peak of the university’s first supercomputer CyBlue, an IBM Blue Gene/L, that uses 2,048 processors to do 5.7 trillion calculations per second.
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