SCD News > SCD photo of the week: October 9, 2001
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New supercomputer comes to NCAR!
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On Friday, 5 October 2001, NCAR took delivery of equipment for phase I of a new Advanced Research Computing System (ARCS). ARCS will combine 167 new IBM SP Power3-II nodes with existing blackforest and babyblue IBM SP nodes to create a 334-node system. Above left, Gary New, a facilities engineer in SCD's Operations and Information Support Section, pushes from behind while a mover strains to pull one of thirteen new SP towers into the NCAR Computer Room. Above right, three towers stand in an aisle of the Computer Room waiting to be unpacked.
ARCS will more than double the raw compute power at NCAR, from 1.0 teraflops to 2.1 teraflops. This will provide researchers around the country with significantly enhanced supercomputing tools for studies of global climate change, droughts, long-range weather prediction, atmospheric chemistry, space weather and other areas. SCD expects to bring up the system within the next few weeks. Additional upgrades next spring and fall will provide further enhancements to the system. For other stories on ARCS, see ARCS delivered!, ARCS: Business as usual -- but bigger and faster, and NCAR powers up climate and weather research with enhanced IBM system. Photos: Lynda Lester/SCD |
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