Tera 100
Supercomputer
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Tera 100 is a supercomputer built by Bull SA for the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique.
| Tera 100 | |
|---|---|
| Design | |
| Manufacturer | Bull SA |
| Release date | May 26, 2010 |
| Units sold | 1 |
| Casing | |
| System | |
| Front-end | Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca') |
| Operating system | Bull XBAS Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative) |
| CPU | 140,000 Intel Xeon 7500 processor cores |
| Memory | 300 TB |
| Storage | 20 PB |
| FLOPS | 1 PetaFLOPS (sustained), 1.25 PetaFLOPS (peak) |
On May 26, 2010, Tera 100 was turned on. The computer, which is located in Essonne is able to sustain around 1 petaFLOPs maximum performance and a peak at 1.25 petaFLOPs. It has 4300 Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca'), 140,000 Intel Xeon 7500 processor cores, and 300 TB of memory. The Interconnect is QDR InfiniBand. The file system has a throughput of 500 GB/s and total storage of 20 PB.[1] It uses the SLURM resource manager for scheduling batch jobs.[2]
Tera 100 uses Bull XBAS Linux, a partly Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative.[2]
In June 2011, TOP500 deemed it the ninth fastest supercomputer in the world, and in 2020, it had dropped off the list.[3]