SKIF MSU

SKIF MSU - a supercomputer developed on the basis of the SKIF-GRID supercomputer program and launched at Moscow State University on March 19, 2008 ; capable of producing about 47 TFLOPS (trillions of floating point operations per second). From June 2008 to November 2011, he was in the Top 500 most powerful computers in the world ^[1] (as of June 2008, SKIF MSU occupied the 37th place in the rating ^[2] , in 2009 - 82nd place ^[3] ).

Developed by Russian and Belarusian specialists and designed to quickly solve a large number of problems in various fields of science: aero and hydrodynamics, meteorology, magnetic hydrodynamics, high energy physics, geophysics, in the financial sphere (when processing large volumes of transactions on stock exchanges), climatology, cryptography , computer simulation of drugs ^[4] .

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Technical Data

The number of computing nodes / processors - 625/1250
Constructive node - blade
The number of cabinets computing computing cluster - 14
Processor Type - Intel Xeon E5472 quad core, 3.0 GHz
Peak performance - 60 TFLOPS
Performance in the Linpack test - 47,17 TFLOPS (78.6% of the peak)
System type DDR InfiniBand ( Mellanox ConnectX )
Message transfer rate between nodes - at least 1450 Mb / s
The delay in the transfer of data packets - no more than 2.2 µs
Type of control (auxiliary) network - Gigabit Ethernet
Type of service network - IPMI + SKIF-ServNet
RAM - 5.5 TB
Disk storage of nodes - 15 TB
Type of storage system T-Platforms ReadyStorage ActiveScale Cluster
Storage System Volume - 60 TB
Occupied area - 96 m ²
Power consumption of the computing cluster - 330 kW
Power consumption of the plant as a whole - 520 kW (up to 720 kW is possible at the peak)
The total length of cable connections - more than 2 km

Uninterruptible Power System:

Type - Online
Execution - modular
Maximum installed power - 400 kW
Number of mounting cabinets - 20
Maximum power - 400 kW
Redundancy - N + 1, hot-swappable components

Climate system:

Type - modular intra-row
Cooling capacity - 400 kW
Reservation - N + 1
The coolant of the external cooling circuit is freon
Coolant internal cooling circuit - water + ethylene glycol
Number of row air conditioners - 8
Number of refrigerators - 3

Notes

↑ TOP500.ORG - SKIF MSU
500 Top500 List - June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
↑ TOP500 List - June 2009 (1-100) | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites
↑ News KM.RU. In MSU launched the most powerful computer in the CIS (Neopr.) (Not available link) . The appeal date is June 4, 2019. Archived May 30, 2008. “I saw how the task of creating a new medicine is being solved. If it used to take 15 years to develop this drug, now it will take five times less time. ”

Literature

The most powerful computer in the CIS was launched at MSU
Construction of the SKIF MSU supercomputer completed
Supercomputer center of Moscow State University will be among the leaders
The Moscow State University completed work on the SKIF MSU supercomputer
The most powerful supercomputer in the CIS is launched at MSU
A powerful supercomputer will be installed at MSU (Unidentified) . Lenta.ru (January 24, 2008). The appeal date is December 24, 2016.
New "SKIF MSU" 22nd in the Top 500 Supercomputers

Links

SKIF MSU on Twitter

[1] TOP500.ORG - SKIF MSU

[2] 500 Top500 List - June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites

[3] TOP500 List - June 2009 (1-100) | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

[4] News KM.RU. In MSU launched the most powerful computer in the CIS (Neopr.) (Not available link) . The appeal date is June 4, 2019. Archived May 30, 2008. “I saw how the task of creating a new medicine is being solved. If it used to take 15 years to develop this drug, now it will take five times less time. ”