This page contains information about HPCx phases at Daresbury from 2002-2010.
The phases of the HPCx system were as shown in the table below.
| Phase | Description |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 4/10/2002- | 42x IBM p690 Regatta servers. 40 each with 32x Power4 1.3 GHz CPUs (total 1,280 CPUs) with 1 GB memory plus 2x I/O control sub-systems each with 16 CPUs. 18 TB storage. LINPACK RMax 3.41 Tflop/s |
| Phase 2 29/5/2004- | 50x IBM p690+ Regatta H servers each with 32x Power4+ 1.7 GHz CPUs (total 1,600 CPUs) with 2 GB memory. 2x I/O server frames. 36 TB storage. LINPACK RMax 6.188 Tflop/s |
| Phase 2a 25/11/2005- | 12x frames each with 8x p575 nodes (96x in total) each with 8x 1.5 GHz Power5 dual core CPUs (total 1,536 CPU cores) and 32 GB memory. 2x I/O server frames. 36 TB storage. LINPACK RMax 7.395 Tflop/s |
| Phase 3 11/2006-31/1/2010 | 160x p575 nodes with Power5 1.5 GHz CPUs (total 2,560 CPU cores). 36 TB storage. LINPACK RMax 12.94 Tflop/s |
| Phase 4 (not implemented) | 120x p575 nodes with Power5+ 1.9 GHz dual core CPUs (total 1,920 cores leading to energy saving). |
HPCx at first ranked highly among the world's Top500, the following figures show how it fared as other faster systems were installed around the globe. For full information see TOP500.
List Rank System Vendors Cores Rmax (GFlop/s) Rpeak (GFlop/s) 11/2002 9 pSeries 690 Turbo 1.3GHz IBM 1280 3406 6656 06/2003 12 pSeries 690 Turbo 1.3GHz IBM 1280 3406 6656 11/2003 16 pSeries 690 Turbo 1.3GHz IBM 1280 3406 6656 06/2004 18 eServer pSeries 690 (1.7 GHz Power4+) IBM 1600 6188 10880 11/2004 27 eServer pSeries 690 (1.7 GHz Power4+) IBM 1600 6188 10880 06/2005 45 eServer pSeries 690 (1.7 GHz Power4+) IBM 1600 6188 10880 11/2005 56 eServer pSeries 690 (1.7 GHz Power4+) IBM 1600 6188 10880 06/2006 76 eServer pSeries 690 (1.7 GHz Power4+) IBM 1600 6188 10880 11/2005 45 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 1536 7395 9216 06/2006 59 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 1536 7395 9216 11/2006 43 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 2560 12940 15360 06/2007 65 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 2560 12940 15360 06/2007 65 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 2560 12940 15360 11/2007 102 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 2560 12940 15360 06/2008 262 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 2560 12940 15360 11/2008 490 eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz IBM 2560 12940 15360
The following photos were taken during Phase 1 installation.
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