Sun’s supercomputer starts operation in Europe

User-centric platform supporting various HPC applications

Sun Microsystems has announced that its supercomputer JuRoPA2 went online at Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany. Sun Microsystems has stated that a core element of the JuRoPA2 computer is the Lustre parallel file system, installed on 14 Sun storage servers, which has a current total capacity of 500 terabytes. 

The Sun Constellation System is also installed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Braunschweig and at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

Marc Hamilton, vice president of HPC at Sun Microsystems, said: By choosing the Sun Constellation System, based on open standards and open source software, Forschungszentrum Jülich has decided on an HPC platform with the openness the market has to offer. The Intel-based blades used by the system are elements of numerous HPC benchmarks and thus ideal for applications requiring ultra-high performance.

It has been reported that the project is supported by a development consortium of companies, including Sun, Intel, Bull, ParTec and Mellanox in cooperation with Forschungszentrum Jülich.

The company has claimed that the new high-performance computing (HPC) system at Julich Supercomputing Centre is a powerful Sun technology-based computer in Europe, featuring 2,208 nodes supported by the Sun Constellation System and Sun Blade X6275 server modules.

Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) supplies computing capacity for Forschungszentrum Julich and helps researchers with the infrastructure they require for complex calculations and simulations.

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