Supercomputers At TACC Getting a Speed Boost

Nerval's Lobster writes "The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin is going to get a major speed boost this summer, and it won't come from new CPUs. Internet2, the research project that acts as a test bed for new Internet technologies, will take TACC's massive computing system from 10GB to 100GB of Ethernet throughput. TACC supercomputers are regularly found near the top of the Top 500 supercomputer list, which ranks the world's fastest supercomputers. But while the supercomputers were fast, the connectivity wasn't quite up to snuff. So TACC began the emigration to the Internet2 network. TACC is a key partner in the UT Research Cyberinfrastructure, which provides a combination of advanced computing, high-bandwidth network connectivity, and large data storage to all 15 of the UT system schools. So not only is TACC upgraded to Internet2s 100GB and 8.8 terabit-per-second optical network, platform, services and technologies, so is the entire UT system. 'This Internet2 bandwidth upgrade will enable researchers to achieve a tenfold increase in moving data to/from TACC's supercomputing, visualization and data storage systems, greatly increasing their productivity and their ability to make new discoveries,' TACC director Jay Boisseau wrote in a statement."

Comments

Speed boost?

[ArcadeMan]

Speed boost my ass. They just found the "Turbo" button.

Re:Speed boost?

[iggymanz]

and they should get the QEMM going in their config.sys so they can LOADHIGH and DEVICEHIGH

Bytes or bits?

[Paleolibertarian]

Don't you mean 100 Gb and not 100 GB which really would be a boost!

Re:Bytes or bits?

[loufoque]

You think the article author would know the difference?