Appro Xtreme-X “Gordon” supercomputer deliver 35 million IOPS!
Appro today announced a new supercomputer — the Xtreme-X. Also, known as “Gordon,” the supercomputer integrates the newly released Intel Solid-State Drive 710 Series and achieves up to 35 million Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS)!
Gordon will be composed of a 1,024 node supercomputer cluster architecture based on the future Intel Xeon processor E5 Family. The system will be capable of performing in excess of 200 TFlops with a total of 64TB of memory and 300TB of high performance Intel SSDs served via 64 I/O nodes connected by a dual rail, QDR InfiniBand, 3D torus network.
Each of these I/O nodes is capable of more than 560K IOPS, or 35M IOPS for the full system; large memory super nodes that provide up to 2 TB of cache-coherent memory via a high performance software aggregation layer; and access to a 4 petabytes (PB) Lustre-based file system capable of sustained rates of 100GB/s.
Gordon is designed for data-intensive applications spanning domains such as genomics, graph problems, geophysics, and data mining.
