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NASA supercomputer

Electra is a petascale supercomputer located at the Ames Research Center facility, manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2016 and commissioned at 2017.[1] This is the first modular supercomputer prototype designed by NASA, as part of its research on making supercomputing more efficient and environment-friendly. Its research resulted in the Aitken supercomputer, destined for Moon landing and related research.[2]

Electra was in 12th place among the most powerful supercomputers in the United States, and 33rd place in the world, in the TOP500 list at November, 2018.[3]

It has 2,304 HPE SGI 8600 and SGI ICE X nodes, each with a second generation Intel Xeon dual CPU, delivering up to 8.32 theoretical petaflops, and 5.44 petaflops (LINPACK) as of June 2019.[1]

1. ^ a b "Electra Supercomputer". www.nas.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
2. ^ Mahoney, Erin (2019-04-09). "NASA Accepts Challenge to Send American Astronauts to Moon in 2024". NASA. Archived from the original on 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
3. ^ "Electra - HPE SGI 8600/SGI ICE-X, E5-2680V4/ Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz, Infiniband EDR/FDR-56 IB | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites". www.top500.org. Retrieved 2019-08-28.

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