The Scientific Supercomputing Center Karlsruhe (SSCK) provides high-performance computational services and resources for the scientific and industrial communities in the State of Baden–Württemberg, Germany. SSCK needed an open, reliable, powerful solution with high bandwidth and scalable storage for data management.
Business Need
Solutions overview
HP XC Cluster with Cluster Platform 6000 system, based on HP Integrity rx2600 and rx8620 servers using Intel Itanium 2 processors
Linux operating system
HP XC system software
HP StorageWorks scalable file share
Results
Achieve peak performance of 2 TFLOP/S
Enable researchers to attack problems they could not solve previously
Provide easy porting of application codes; numerous open source development tools
Have single sign-on, single point of administration
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