The KTH Royal Institute of Technology has upgraded its Cray-built supercomputer with the latest processor from AMD. Using the new dodeca-core Opteron processors the supercomputer becomes the fastest in Sweden with 305 teraflops.
The current KTH Cray system performs 93 teraflops, but the new eventual performance at over 300 teraflops is expected to be reached when the system is completed this fall.
The supercomputer will not just be the fastest in Sweden but also the fastest in the Nordics with a total of 36,384 cores under the hood. A significant increase from the 11,040 cores found in the system today.
– The supercomputer from Cray at PDC will serve the researchers and is an irreplacable tool for results in areas like medicine, flow mechanics, biology and life sciences, but also climate modelling and astrophysics, says Erwin Laure.
The new upgrade will make it possible for KTH to keep up in e-sience where large resources are need to perform important and heavy calculations. The upgrade is financed by KTH and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, SNIC. The build will be completed on August 32 when the KTH supercomputer division PDC celebrates 20 years of service.
