Case Studies and Awards

Dell in the Top500 List

Dell enables the solution of some of the greatest challenges in the most complex high-performance computing (HPC) environments. At Dell, we use our experience in these multicore HPC architectures to further improve their computational capacity and to leverage best practices for smaller departmental HPC solutions.

The TOP500® project ranks the sites that operate the 500 most powerful computer systems based on the best performance on the Linpack benchmark. The Top500 List is published twice a year, and as of May 2010, Dell™ HPC clusters were ranked as follows:

Rank

Number of Cores

Site

System

3115,648University of ColoradoPowerEdge™ C6100 Cluster, Xeon® X5660 2.8 GHz, InfiniBand®
6511,664University of Southern CaliforniaPowerEdge 1950/Sun Fire™ X2200/iDataPlex/IBM® dx340 Intel® 53xx/54xx 2.33 GHz, Opteron™ 2.3 GHz, E5410 2.33 GHz Myrinet 10G
689,210Maui High-Performance Computing Center (MHPCC)Dell PowerEdge M610 Cluster, Nehalem-EP 2.8 GHz, InfiniBand
829,600NCSAPowerEdge 1955, 2.33 GHz, InfiniBand, Windows Server® 2008/Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4
858,856Clemson UniversityPowerEdge 1950/Sun Fire X2200/iDataPlex/IBM dx340 Intel 53xx/54xx 2.33 GHz, Opteron 2.3 GHz, E5410 2.33 GHz Myrinet 10G
899,800KTH - Royal Institute of TechnologyPowerEdge SC1435 dual core Opteron 2.2 GHz, InfiniBand
999,024NNSA/Sandia National LaboratoriesPowerEdge 1850, 3.6 GHz, InfiniBand
1235,848Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of TexasPowerEdge 1955, 2.66 GHz, InfiniBand
1405,200Maui High-Performance Computing Center (MHPCC)PowerEdge 1955, 3.0 GHz, InfiniBand
1464,096Saudi AramcoDell PowerEdge M610 Cluster, Nehalem-EP 2.93Ghz, InfiniBand
1644,608R-SystemsDell DCS CS23-SH, QC HT 2.8 GHz, InfiniBand
1784,096Saudi AramcoPowerEdge 1950, Xeon 53xx 3 GHz, InfiniBand
2084,000HHMI - Janelia Farm Research CampusDell PowerEdge R610, Xeon X5550 2.66 GHz, 10G Ethernet
2245,440Louisiana Optical Network InitiativePowerEdge 1950, 2.33 GHz, InfiniBand
2473,344Texas Tech UniversityPowerEdge 1950, Xeon E54xx 3.0 GHz, InfiniBand
2644,096Harvard University - FAS Research ComputingPowerEdge M600 Cluster, Xeon E5410 2.3 GHz, InfiniBand
3324,200Arizona State University HPCI / Translational Genomics Research Institute HPBCPowerEdge M1000e/M600, E54xx/X5355 2.83/2.66 GHz, InfiniBand
3794,160University of North CarolinaPowerEdge 1955, 2.33 GHz, Cisco/Topspin InfiniBand
3964,176University of OklahomaPowerEdge 1950, Xeon E54xx, 2 GHz, InfiniBand
4215,600Purdue UniversityPowerEdge 1950, Xeon E54xx, 2.33 GHz, GigE
4232,560Brigham Young UniversityDell PowerEdge M610 Cluster, Nehalem-EP 2.8 GHz, InfiniBand

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