Red Storm (computing)

Red Storm is a supercomputer architecture designed for the ASCI Thor's Hammer supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratory by Cray, Inc.^[1] The architecture was later productized as the Cray XT3. It was announced on July 27, 2004.^[2] The Red Storm machine at Sandia Top 500 performance:

• November 2005: Rank 6 [1]
• June 2006: Rank 9
• November 2006: Rank 2
• June 2007: Rank 3 [2]

The Top500 ranking improved between June and November of that year since the system was upgraded from 10880 2.0 GHz single core Opterons to 12960 2.4 GHz dual-core Opterons with 26544 total processing elements for 14.5 teraflops. Additional computer cabinets were brought online as part of the "fifth-row" of the computer, bringing the total to 300 cabinets.

External links and sources

1. ^ Red Storm fact sheet
2. ^ Sandia Red Storm press release

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