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Supercomputing in Europe

Index Supercomputing in Europe

Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. [1]

19 relations: Aquasar, European Grid Infrastructure, Fermi (supercomputer), Galileo (supercomputer), Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart, History of supercomputing, Ibercivis, National Computer Center for Higher Education (France), Pico (supercomputer), Research and Technology Computing Center (France), Supercomputer, Supercomputer architecture, Supercomputing in China, Supercomputing in India, Supercomputing in Japan, Supercomputing in Pakistan, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, T-Platforms.

Aquasar

Aquasar is a supercomputer system from IBM Research which uses hot water cooling to achieve heat efficiency.

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European Grid Infrastructure

European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a series of efforts to provide access to high-throughput computing resources across Europe using grid computing techniques.

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Fermi (supercomputer)

Fermi is a 2.097 petaFLOPS supercomputer located at CINECA.

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Galileo (supercomputer)

Galileo is a 1.1 -PetaFlops supercomputer located in Cineca.

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Gauss Centre for Supercomputing

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) combines the three national supercomputing centres HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart), JSC (Jülich Supercomputing Centre), and LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching near Munich) into Germany’s Tier-0 supercomputing institution.

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High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart

The High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Germany, is a research institute and a supercomputer center.

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History of supercomputing

The history of supercomputing goes back to the early 1920s in the United States with the IBM tabulators at Columbia University and a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC), designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance.

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Ibercivis

Ibercivis is a distributed computing platform which allows internet users to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer cycles to run scientific simulations and other tasks.

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National Computer Center for Higher Education (France)

The National Computer Center of Higher Education (CINES) (Centre informatique national de l'enseignement supérieur) offers computer services for research and higher education in France.

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Pico (supercomputer)

PICO is an Intel Cluster installed in the data center of Cineca. PICO is intended to enable new "BigData" classes of applications, related to the management and processing of large quantities of data, coming both from simulations and experiments.

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Research and Technology Computing Center (France)

The Research and Technology Computing Center (Centre de calcul recherche et technologie, CCRT) is a supercomputing center in Île-de-France.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.

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Supercomputer architecture

Approaches to supercomputer architecture have taken dramatic turns since the earliest systems were introduced in the 1960s.

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Supercomputing in China

China operates a number of supercomputer centers which, altogether, hold 29.3% performance share of world's fastest 500 supercomputers.

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Supercomputing in India

India's supercomputer program was started in late 1980s because Cray supercomputers were denied for import due to an arms embargo imposed on India, as it was a dual-use technology and could be used for developing nuclear weapons.

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Supercomputing in Japan

Japan operates a number of centers for supercomputing which hold world records in speed, with the K computer becoming the world's fastest in June 2011.

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Supercomputing in Pakistan

The high performance supercomputing program started in mid-to-late 1980s in Pakistan.

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Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico; CSCS) is the national high-performance computing centre of Switzerland.

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T-Platforms

T-Platforms is a Russian supercomputer company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_Europe

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