SGI and IT4Innovations Announce a TOP 500 Supercomputer in Europe Salomon

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a global leader in high performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, and IT4Innovations national supercomputing center in the Czech Republic, announced the deployment of the Salomon s upercompute r, ranked 40th among the most powerful supercomputers on the prestigious TOP500 list . The Salomon supercomputer, an SGI system, which is operated by IT4Innovations national supercomputing center at VSB Technical Uni versity of Ostrava (VSB TUO)TUO), is hosting an unveiling ceremony that will take place today.

Big Cluster to be delivered by US company SGI

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava and a prestigious US company Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI®) signed today the delivery contract for the so-called Big Cluster. During the first half of 2015 will be installed in Ostrava a petaflop-class system. Its performance will thus surpass almost twentyfold the current Ostrava’s supercomputer Anselm. With the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and Xeon PhiTM coprocessors, the supercomputer in Ostrava will become one of systems with the highest performance in Europe that use this type of chips.

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