RESEARCH
The third member of the group is the first computer dedicated to European fusion research. Fusion researchers intend to use the HPC-FF supercomputer to better understand the complex mechanisms in the hot fusion matter, the plasma, that reaches a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius inside the ITER fusion reactor. Supercomputing is, for example, absolutely indispensable for understanding the turbulent processes that determine the extraction of energy from the plasma.
HPC-FF consists of 1080 computing nodes each equipped with two Nehalem EP Quad Core processors from Intel. The total of 8640 water-cooled processors have a clock rate of 2.93 GHz each and they will be able to access approximately 24 terabytes of total main memory. HPC-FF is being funded by the European Commission, the members of the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) and Forschungszentrum Jülich. JUROPA and HPC-FF are based on related technology and can be operated together if required.
Name: HPC-FF (High Performance Computing for Fusion)
Computing power: 101 teraflop/s
Processor nodes: 1080 with two processors each
Processor type: Intel Xeon X5570 (Nehalem-EP) quad-core, 2.93 GHz
Main memory: 24 terabyte