High-Performance Computers at AWI
Currently, the following high-performance computing systems are operated at the AWI Computer and Data Center.
NEC SX-8R
Operating since February 2007
- High Performance Vector Computer
- 8 CPU per Node
- 14 Nodes
- 35.2 GFlops / CPU
- 281.6 GFlops / Node
- 128 GB Main Memory per Node
- 56 TB GFS disk
IBM Cluster
Operating since 2001
(Last hardware upgrade: December 2009)
IBM BladeCenter with JS22 blades
- 14 blades
- 4 Processor cores per blade
- Power 6 processors, 4.0 GHz
- 12 blades with 16 GB memory
- 2 blades with 32 GB memory
- 7.3 TB disk space





