AUSTIN, Texas—The #Dell-based #Stampede #supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center here, which currently is the 10th-fastest system in the world, is about to get a significant upgrade.
Officials with the center, which is part of the University of Texas at Austin, announced June 2 that the facility will use a $30 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a new large-scale supercomputer that will provide twice the peak performance, memory, storage capacity and bandwidth of the current system, which went online in 2013.
Stampede 2 will be built with Dell PowerEdge servers and powered by a mix of the next generation of Intel Xeon chips and the chip maker's many-core Xeon Phi "Knights Landing" processors. It also will use Intel's OmniPath connectivity fabric and the chip maker's upcoming 3D XPoint memory technology. Once it's all in place in 2018, the supercomputer will deliver 18 petaflops of peak performance, twice the amount of the current Stampede. Eighteen petaflops would put the system in the number-two slot on themost recent Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, which was released in November 2015.
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