Intel is in conjunction with the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring ( Roshydromet ) plans to establish a competence center for high performance computing in the field of hydrometeorology.
The Protocol on the establishment of the center was signed by the Vice President, General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group Corporation Tom Kilroy (Thomas M. Kilroy) and the head of Hydromet, president of the World Meteorological Organization Alexander Bedritsky.
The hardware base for the new center will Roshydromet complexes of multi-core Intel server platforms and infrastructure customer solutions based on Intel vPro processor technology.
One of the first points of the program of modernization and re- equipping of the world will Meteorological Center in Moscow, the SGI Altix 4700 supercomputer with peak performance of 11 TFlops. It is based on 832 dual-core Intel Itanium 9140 the latest generation of. The computer is also equipped with a cluster of SGI ICE 8200 with a peak performance of 16 TFlops on the basis of 354 45- nm quad- core Intel Xeon processors 5400 series.
In addition, in the northern capital is currently testing the SGI Altix 4700 system based on 54 dual-core Intel Itanium 9040, having a peak performance of 0.7 TFlops. This year, a similar setup will be introduced in two regional centers, the World Meteorological Organization: Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk.
GI Altix 450, a position for 8-12 Intel Itanium processors 9140 beautify and improve the work environment centers in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk and Rostov- on-Don. Total for the next two years, new servers and PCs will be installed in more than 90 organizations Roshydromet.
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