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National Environmental Scientific Computing Center


The National Environmental Scientific Computing Center (NESC2) is a contractor-operated facility designed to support EPA High Performance Computing (HPC) programs.


NESC2 Takes Delivery of a New IBM Power 4+    
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In FY2004, NESC2 took delivery of an IBM eServer Cluster 1600, consisting of 16 pSeries 655 nodes, each with eight 1.5 GHz IBM POWER4+ processors and 16 GB of memory, connected by a high performance switch. The new system, named "emerald" after the North Carolina state gem, will have a combined peak capacity of 768 Gflop/s and will contain 16 terabytes (TB) of disk space using IBM TotalStorage FastT disk technology.
Picture of IBM Power4

 

 
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