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With 195 thousand cores, it can hit 2.9 petaflop/s. With 65 miles of cable, it’s the largest InfiniBand network in the world.

Pleiades also has the capability to have capability expansions and hot swaps without an interruption of operations.

After seeing the photo above, I realized that I felt compelled to take a similar pose to the one I used inside the Cray X1 at Oak Ridge National Labs… (see below)

9 responses to “NASA Pleiades Supercomputer”

  1. With my first digital camera… ORNL 2004
    Lost in Space

    back to NASA… The entrance to the facility which draws 4MW of power:
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    45 petabytes of archival storage with 0.9 petabytes of online disk cache:
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    There’s enough tape in there to wrap the Earth at the equator.

    and a whole lot of cables
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    some mystery plugs
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    And we started in base director Pete Worden’s office, with the crew from D-Wave
    Haig Unknown more

  2. and all of that for….. ?

  3. Aaah – but does it come with a COBOL compiler? That is the mark of a truly useful computer.

  4. I think you’re supposed to wear tin foil to protect your brain from all those gigahertz!

  5. "Within 5 years this whole computing complex will be just this big" (pulls hands even closer together)

  6. Beautiful cabling job and Cray offers a nice aesthetic.

  7. funny it still looks like in the old days

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