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ASUS based Supercomputer Ranks High in Two Top 500 Lists

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Updated: December 11, 2013
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ASUS has announced that one of their server designs, the ESC4000/FDR G2 was used in forming the supercomputer SANAM which has now ranked in the top 500 of not one but two lists, ranking number 59 in the list of most powerful commercially available computers on TOP500, and number 11 on the Green500 list for most energy efficient systems, as of the current standings for November of 2013.

The SANAM cluster is capable of pumping out 532.6 TFLOPS with an energy efficiency of 2.3 GFLOPS/Watt, built using 210 ESC4000/FDR G2s, consisting of 420 AMD FirePro S10000 dual-GPUs and an array of 420 Intel Xeon E5-2650 eight-core processors, leading to a total of 38,400 processing cores.

ASUS has taken this chance to help boost the awareness of this server and make it clear to people just how powerful and efficient it is, you can check out it’s product page and full specs here.

Full Press Release

Fremont, CA (December 10, 2013) – ASUS today announced that its ESC4000/FDR G2 servers powered the SANAM high-performance-computing (HPC) cluster to secure the number 59 spot in the November 2013 TOP500 table, the definitive list of the world’s most powerful commercially available computers. The ASUS-powered SANAM cluster also ranked 11th in the November 2013 Green500 list of most energy-efficient supercomputers on the planet.

 

ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 servers form the heart of the SANAM high-performing computing (HPC) cluster, a joint supercomputing project designed by Germany’s Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia to support national-level scientific research.

 

The ASUS-powered SANAM cluster delivers total processing power of 532.6TFLOPS and energy efficiency of 2.3GFLOPS/watt — world-class performance that’s confirmed by the latest TOP500 and Green500 charts.

 

Supercomputing power delivered by ASUS servers

The ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 delivers the latest HPC technology, with superior parallel processing and InfiniBand™, an interconnect technology with high throughput, low latency, quality of service (QoS) and failover. ESC4000/FDR G2 servers support InfiniBand FDR (fourteen data rate) transfers of up to 56Gbit/s.

 

The ESC4000/FDR G2’s architecture makes it an excellent choice for heavy-duty calculations and modeling-intensive applications. ASUS-powered SANAM supercomputers excel in fields such as aerospace, weather forecasting and simulating chemical reactions and particle movement. The TOP500-ranked SANAM HPC cluster employs 210 ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 servers with 420 AMD FirePro™ S10000 dual-GPU (graphics-processing unit) modules and an array of 420 Intel Xeon® E5-2650 eight-core processors — providing a total of 38,400 processor cores.

 

High power, high efficiency and highly scalable

The ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 server that powered the SANAM cluster to high positions in the world’s most prestigious HPC and energy-efficiency tablets is both established and trusted in many finance, virtualization and high-end scientific settings.

 

The two-rack-unit (2U) server is based on the dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 platform with eight hot-swappable 3.5-inch SATA hard drive cages and a 1+1-redundant 1620W 80 PLUS® Platinum-certified power supply that provides up to 94% energy efficiency. With nine PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x16 expansion slots, the ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 delivers high-density computing power that is highly scalable.

 

AVAILABILITY & PRICING

ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 is available now, worldwide. Please contact your local ASUS representative for further information.

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