MareNostrum
MoDEL calculations required a massive use of the MareNostrum supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, one of the most powerful supercomputer in Europe and the number 77 in the world, according to the last Top500 list. In March 2004 the Spanish government and IBM signed an agreement to build one of the the fastest computer in Europe. In November 2006 its capacity was increased due to the large demand of scientific projects. MareNostrum increased the calculation capacity reaching 94.21 Teraflops (94.21 trillions of operations per second), doubling its previous capacity (42.35 Teraflops).
See below a summary of the system:
- Peak Performance of 94.21 Teraflops
- 10240 IBM Power PC 970MP processors at 2.3 GHz (2560 JS21 blades)
- 20 TB of main memory
- 390 + 90 TB of disk storage
- Interconnection networks: Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet
- Linux: SuSE Distribution
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