Los Alamos National Laboratory Deploys New Supercomputer

By DE Editors

The Los Alamos National Laboratorys Institutional Computing Program is deploying the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer. This deployment represents approximately $10 Million in production computing capability.

The Xtreme-X Supercomputer (named Mustang) will be used to address LANLs HPC needs for unclassified scientific computing and included complete factory-integrated and pre-tested systems with HPC professional services and support. The system will provide high performance computing resources to a variety of activities at Los Alamos, including ocean, wildfire, plasma physics, materials and nuclear energy.  The Climate, Ocean, and Sea Ice Modeling (COSIM)  project, a part of the climate modeling program in the DOEs Office of Science, is a partner with Institutional Computing in this acquisition.

The Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer consists of two processors per node with a total of 38,400 cores, 353 Tflops based on the current 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor. The system is interconnected with single-rail 4x Mellanox QDR IB (Quad Data Rate InfiniBand) and integrated with the Tri-Laboratory Common Computing Environment (CCE)  software stack built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution and additional third-party and open source software.

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