Express5800/Parallel PC-Cluster
HPC Engineering Center will be established in Tokyo on Jun 1st equipped with a 128-CPU (64 nodes) cluster system based on the Express 5800 series server. The cluster system will be used as a platform for benchmarking and functional verification of parallel applications on standard Linux-based clustering software such as Beowulf*2 and SCore*3.
HPC Engineering Center starts with 10 staffs and will be open to other research organization, such as ISV (Independent Software Vendor) and SI (System Integration) vendor both on site and by remote access.
NEC delivered 1024-CPU (512 nodes) PC cluster system using its Express 5800series to Real World Computing Partnership (RWCP) promoted by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for the development of parallel cluster system software named SCore. This system recorded 548 Giga FLOPS in performance on Linpack Benchmarking test*4.
NEC will further cumulate the know-how of integration of cluster system with the engineering transfer from RWCP utilizing HPC Engineering Center as the core center for enhancement of system integration capability.
In conjunction with the opening of HPC Engineering Center, NEC introduce Express 5800/Parallel PC-Cluster, composed of the rack-mount-type Express 5800 series servers connected via a high speed network such as Gigabit Ethernet or Myrinet*5 with clustering software pre-installed.
Recently, thanks to the increase in performance of IA server and high speed networking, PC cluster system become highlighted for the purpose of bio-technology area which require high speed processing for searching and analysis of vast volume of data such as genome and protein structure.
In order to meet such a market requirement, NEC decided to establish HPC Engineering Center and to introduce Express 5800/ Parallel PC-Cluster.
The Express 5800/Parallel PC-Cluster will be demonstrated at the LinuxWorldExpo/ Tokyo 2001 to be held at Tokyo Big site on May 30 in Tokyo.
