Supercomputer
Linux Cluster "tornado"
"tornado" is a Linux computer cluster which is jointly operated by DKRZ and the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology.
It is used for model development and test runs, while "blizzard" is used for the more demanding calculations and production runs for the research projects.
Tornado at a glance:
- peak performance:10 TeraFlop/s
- 256 SUN Fire X2200M2-computing nodes
- each node with 2 Quad-Core-Processors (alltogether 2048)
- 8.5 TeraByte main storage
- 300 TeraByte disk storage (Lustre)
- infiniband network with 1 Terabyte/s aggregate transfer rate
