ScREC
ScREC is a supercomputer developed by the Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS) at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan. With a 132 teraflops performance, it is currently the fastest supercomputer in Pakistan.[1]
| Active | September 2012[1] |
|---|---|
| Operators | Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), NUST |
| Location | Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Storage | 21.6 TeraByte[1] |
| Speed | 132 TeraFLOPS[1] |
| Purpose | Multipurpose[1] |
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System specifications
ScREC is able to perform parallel computing and has a performance speed of 132 teraFLOPS (trillion operations per second). It is the fastest running graphics processing unit (GPU) parallel computing system to have been developed in Pakistan.[1] The supercomputer has multi-core processors and graphics co-processors, with an inter-process communication speed of 40 gigabits per second. According to system specifications, the computer cluster consists of 66 nodes equipped with 30,992 processor cores. Additional component details include:
- 32 dual quad core computer nodes (256 processor cores)
- 32 Nvidia graphics processing units
- QDR InfiniBand interconnection
- 21.6 TB storage
References
- "Fastest supercomputer is out". Daily Times (Pakistan). 19 September 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2012.