Polytechnician of the RSK Tornado

The polytechnician of the RSK Tornado - cluster system on the basis of architecture of RSK Tornado with direct liquid cooling and the server Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v3.

"the polytechnician of the RSK Tornado" consists of 712 dual-processor nodes including 1424 high-performance server Intel Xeon processors E5-2697 v3 (14 cores in everyone with clock rate 2.6 MHz), server payments of Intel S2600KP and Intel S2600WT for this generation of processors, the newest solid state drives of Intel of SSD DC S3500 for corporate DPCs including leading on performance of Intel of SSD DC P3700 on the basis of architecture of NVM Express.

Resources of the supercomputer are intended for the solution of difficult computing tasks and providing cloud, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and graphic services.

2020: The 5th line in the rating of Top50 of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia and the CIS

On March 31, 2020 the 32nd edition of rating Top50 of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia and the CIS became known. "The polytechnician – the RSK Tornado" in SPbPU reserved the fifth line. Read more here.

2014: 81 positions in the Top 500

The maximum capacity of a system from 19936 cores registered according to test results of Linpack - 658.1 Tflops, peak - 829.3 Tflops.

With it results the computing cluster entered the rating of 500 supercomputers of the world, having taken 81 positions.