欧洲最强电脑明年现身 |
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/11/08 19:12 国际在线 |
MADRID (AFP) - The world's second-most powerful computer is expected to be operational in Spain in January, a senior Spanish minister announced. "Mare Nostrum", which will be capable of carrying out 40 trillion operations per second, is to be used for scientific research in medicine, climate change and new materials for the aeronautics and mechanical engineering industries. Spain's Education and Sciences Minister Maria Jesus San Sagundo said the computer, which has been built in the northeastern port city of Barcelona, will be available for use by both Spanish and other international scientific communities. The 60-tonne system, the most powerful of its kind in Europe, comprises 4,500 processors and has a storage capacity of 128 terabytes. It uses the Linux (news - web sites) operating system. It was built by the Spanish government and computer giant IBM at a cost of 70 million dollars. The world's biggest supercomputer is the 40-teraflop Earth Simulator built by NEC in Yokohama, Japan. It has 5,104 processors and is dedicated to studies of climate and seismic activity. |
欧洲最强超级电脑明年初现身西班牙 |
西班牙一名政府高官10月5日宣布,欧洲最强功能的超级电脑将于2005年1月开始服务于西班牙医学等方面的科研工作。 据美联社10月5日报道,这台超级电脑名为“Mare Nostrum”,其运算能力高达每秒40万亿次。它重达60吨,由4500颗处理器组成,存储容量为128terabytes,采用Linux操作系统。Mare Nostrum主要将用于医学、气象学、航空学以及机械工程学方面的研究。 西班牙教育与科学大臣萨贡多指出,Mare Nostrum由西班牙政府和国际商用机器公司(IBM)联手在西班牙巴塞罗那进行制造,预计耗资7000万美元。建成之后,它将供西班牙国内和其它国际科研组织使用。 报道说,到目前为止,Mare Nostrum是欧洲同类电脑中功能最强大的,在世界上排名第2。长期占据世界超级电脑第1名宝座的是日本NEC公司的地球模拟器系统(Earth Simulator)。Earth Simulator拥有5104颗处理器,速度为40 teraflops(40兆次),主要用于气候与地震活动性的研究。(蒋黎黎) |