a quick visit to the HPC/V (16)

oh c'mon! every geek wants to do this! ^_^ (but it is a little wrong, yes (((: )

(picture taken by frans van hoesel)

This is btw the fastest supercomputer in the Netherlands and one of the fastest (Nr. 51 in the top 500) in the world... This is a 12,288(!) core system. The previous Blue Gene/L was #68 (and ranked much higher earlier on), but it's been replaced only a couple of weeks ago with a Blue Gene/P, in other words, it's even quicker!

for some undisclosed appointment(^_^), i visited the High Performance Computing & Visualization Centre (HPC/V) this afternoon. And of course I took some pics!

(we were in a little bit of a rush, so quite some of these pics are a little shaky because my camera still was on iso 50...)

(i visited this very same centre more than five years ago too....)