Tokyo University intros SSD-based supercomputer

The Tokyo Institute of Technology revealed on Wednesday that its next-generation supercomputer will start operation in the fall. Called Tsubame 2.0, it will use 2,816 six-core, 2.96GHz Xeon 5600 processors combined with 4,224 of NVIDIA's Tesla M2050 general-purpose GPUS to top 2.39 petaflops. It should rank second in the Top 500 ranking as of June 2010 and will also be the first petaflop supercomputer in Japan....

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