June 2016 Irish Supercomputer List

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High Rmax List (≥ 10 TFlop/s)

RankRmax (Tflops/s)Site & MachineHardware
1(N)365.9Industry (Software Company M), Cluster AXeon 12c; 14,568 cores; details
2(N)307.4Industry (Software Company M), Cluster BXeon 12c; 12,240 cores; details
3(N)307.4Industry (Software Company M), Cluster CXeon 12c; 12,240 cores; details
4140.4Irish Centre for High-End Computing, FionnIvy Bridge & Sandy Bridge; 8,432 cores; Xeon Phi & K20X; details
5128.1Industry (Software Company M), Cluster DOpteron 6c; 23,316 cores; details
637.83Industry (HPC), Unnamed ClusterIntel; 1,720 cores; details
716.59Trinity College Dublin, Centre for High Performance Computing, BoyleXeon 6c; 160 cores; Phi; details
8(N)13.152***Tyndall National Institute, Tyndall HPCOpteron; 2,740 CPUs; details
9(U)12.5University College Dublin, Unnamed ClusterIntel 12c; 384 cores; details
10(U)12.1University College Dublin, Research IT, SonicXeon 6c & 8c; 1,360 cores; Tesla; details
1110.95Trinity College Dublin, School of Chemistry, PopleXeon 8c; 352 cores; details
1210.02Trinity College Dublin, Green Data Centre, SeagullXeon 8c; 320 cores; details

Low Rmax List (< 10 TFlop/s)

RankRmax (Tflop/s)Site & MachineHardware
139.27*Trinity College Dublin, Centre for High Performance Computing, ParsonsIntel 4c; 1,104 cores; details
149*Trinity College Dublin, Centre for High Performance Computing, KelvinIntel 6c; 1,200 cores; details
158.9*Trinity College Dublin, Centre for High Performance Computing, LonsdaleOpteron 6c; 1,232 cores; details
168.37**Seagate, teslaIntel; 64 processors; Tesla; details
177.7**Queens University Belfast, Dell ClusterXeon 4c; 912 cores; Tesla; details
187.6University College Dublin, Engineering and Physics, PascalIntel 4c; 736 cores; details
195.4*Trinity College Dublin, School of Computer Science & Statistics ClusterXeon 4c & 6c; 864 cores; details
20(N)5****University College Dublin, SpeedyOpeteron 16c; details
214.5**University College Dublin, School of Mathematical Sciences - Orr2Opteron 16c / Xeon 4c / Xeon/6c; 376 cores; K20; details
223.24*National University of Ireland, Maynooth, SiocXeon 4c; 344 cores; details
231.21*Trinity College Dublin, Centre for High Performance Computing, CrusherIntel 4c; 144 cores; details
240.86*Queens University Belfast, Windows HPCSXeon; 128 cores; details
250.67*University of Limerick, Materials & Surface Science Institute, AMPS (Boyle)Xeon 4c; 160 cores; details
260.67*University of Limerick, Materials & Surface Science Institute, AMPS (Boole)Xeon 4c; 160 cores; details
27(N)0.65University College Dublin, Research IT, Matlab ClusterXeon; 64 cores; details

List #6 Decommissioned Machines (Details)

Peak RankDecomissioned List, Last RankRmax (Tflop/s)Site & Machine
Nov 2013, 3Jun 2016, 364.9Industry (Gaming), Cluster A
Nov 2013, 4Jun 2016, 464.9Industry (Gaming), Cluster B
Nov 2013, 5Jun 2016, 564.9Industry (Gaming), Cluster C
Nov 2013, 6Jun 2016, 640.5Industry (Web Content Provider), Unnamed Cluster
Nov 2014, 15Jun 2016, 187.1University College Dublin, Earth Institute, Gaia
Nov 2013, 12Jun 2016, 196.18Tyndall National Institute, Tyndall HPC
Jun 2014, 17Jun 2016, 224.146Dublin City University, Cluster 1

  • N = New entry
  • U = Upgrade
  • Total CPU Cores > 86,500
  • Total accelerator cores > 106,000
  • Combined performance: >1.46 PFlops/s.

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* Calculated using HPL Calculator

** Manual calculation (84% peak system efficiency)

*** Rocks Cluster Register figure

**** Preliminary figure

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