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What is HPC? - or - What is a Super Computer?
The term high-performance computing (HPC) refers to any computational activity requiring more than a single computer to execute a task. Super computers Supercomputers and computer clusters are used to solve advanced computation problems.
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10 TFlops as reported by LINPACK. LINPACK is the benchmarking software used to rate and rank super computerssupercomputers.
The network for intranode intra-node communication is based on Infiniband and is rated for 56Gbits/second.
Comparison: A CPU currently found in some gaming PCs is the Intel I7 3930K which normally runs in the 3GHz range overclocked to 5GHz will net about 100 GFlops.
Florida Poly's Supercomputer is getting 10TFlops without overclocking and with plenty of room to grow in capacity and speed.
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In addition to the HPC cluster, Florida Poly has a Virtualization suite.
Florida Poly is currently running VMware's vSphere 5.5 update 1
Storage for the suite consists of 21 TB SAS and 2 TB of SSD
Hypervisors and storage are connected via 10GB links