[Acm] Specs of 4th fastest supercomputer

[Matt]

Hi all -

Found the specs of the 4th largest supercomputer on Slashdot.  It is located in Pune, India and is completely privately funded; no government money.  Cool stuff.

Cheers -
Matt

The infrastructure
The actual supercomputer was built in just 6 weeks. However, other aspects took much longer. It took an year of convincing to get the project funded. And another year to build the physical building and the rest of the infrastructure. Eka uses

    * 2.5MW of electricity
    * 400ton cooling capacity
    * 10km of electrical cabling
    * 10km of ethernet cabling
    * 15km of infiniband cabling

The computing infrastructure itself consists of:
    * 1800 blades, 4 cores each. 3Ghz for each core.
    * HP SFS clusters
    * 28TB memory
    * 80TB storage. Simple SATA disks. 5.2Gbps throughput.
    * Lustre distributed file-system
    * 20Gbps infiniband DDR. Eka was on the cutting edge of Infiniband technology. They sourced their infiniband hardware from an Israeli company and where amongst the first users of their releases - including beta, and even alpha quality stuff.
    * Multiple Gigabit ethernets
    * Linux is the underlying OS. Any Linux will work - RedHat, SuSe, your favorite distribution.
http://punetech.com/building-eka-the-worlds-fastest-privately-funded-supercomputer/