SINGAPORE, 22 JULY 2009 - Singapore’s science and technology university, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), has installed a green supercomputer at its new High Performance Computing (HPC) Centre on campus, claiming that it is the fastest supercomputer in the region too.
The university said that this achievement was made in collaboration with Jardine OneSolution (2001) Pte Ltd, IBM, Intel, and Red Hat.
Providing the details of the centre, NTU said that its HPC Centre, expected to be operational in October 2009, will be based on the first IBM System x iDataplex (picture) cluster in ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and the largest in Asia-Pacific. It is powered by the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series that automatically adjusts to specified energy usage levels and speed data centre transactions, thus reducing electricity consumption.
Fastest in ASEAN
“With its measured computing power (Rmax) of over 28 teraflops (trillion mathematical calculations per second), NTU’s HPC system will be the fastest in ASEAN,” said an NTU representative. “This HPC Centre’s supercomputer is currently placed at No. 267 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, according to the latest TOP500 List. It is also the 24th most energy efficient system on the Green500 list with 266.68 Mflops (millions of floating point operations per second) per watt.”
“With growing HPC adoption worldwide, we are excited that the new facility will put NTU at the forefront of high performance computing,” said Professor Bertil Andersson, Provost, NTU. “By offering it as a central computing resource to the 2,800 faculty and researchers in the University, we cater to the varied computing needs demanded by the academic disciplines in the Institution and facilitate advancement of our many strategic research initiatives.”
