Switched-Off Systems (Outdated)¶
HPC at ZIH has a quite long history and several systems have been installed and operated. Documentation on former systems for future reference can be found on the following pages:
- SGI Altix
- PC-Farm Atlas
- PC-Farm Deimos
- PC-Cluster Phobos
- Windows-HPC-Server Titan
- PC-Cluster Triton
- Shared-Memory-System Venus
- Bull Taurus
Historical Overview¶
| Year | System |
|---|---|
| 1968 | Zeiss-Rechenautomat Nr. 1 (ZRA1) Performance: 150 to 200 instructions/s, 4096 storage cells with 48 bit each (magnetic drum) |
| 1970 | Commissioning of large stand-alone computers, coupled stand-alone computers and terminals (BESM, ESER) |
| 1976 | Computer network DELTA and graphic workstations |
| 1981 | Deployment of the first microcomputers; experimental testing of local area networks (LAN) |
| 1986 | Workstation computers replace mechanical devices; the first PC pools for teaching and studying are set up |
| 1991 | Short-term operation of used mainframe computers |
| 1993 | VP200-EX (857 MFlop/s Peak) |
| 1996 | Development of infrastructure on the TU campus |
| 1997 | SGI Origin2000 (21,8 GFlop/s, 56 CPUs, 17 GB RAM, 350 GB disk capacity) |
| 1998 | Cray T3E (38,4 GFlop/s, 64 CPUs, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB disk capacity) |
| 2001/02 | SGI Origin3800 (51,2 + 102,4 GFlop/s, 64 + 128 CPUs, 64 + 64 GB RAM, 790 GB disk capacity) |
| 2004 | Itanium-Cluster Castillo |
| 2005/06 | Hochleistungsrechner/Speicherkomplex: SGI Altix 4700: 13 TFlop/s, 6,5 TB RAM PC-Farm: 13 TFlop/s, 5,5 TB RAM SAN capacity: 136 TB Tape archive: 1 PB, 2500 tapes |
| 2007 | Setup PC-SAN NEC SX6: 72 GFlop/s |
| 2008 | Microsoft HPC-System |
| 2010 | IBM-Cluster iDataPlex |
| 2012 | GPU-Cluster HPC-Cluster Atlas: 50 TFlop/s Peak, 13 TB RAM |
| 2012/13 | SGI UV 2000: 10,6 TFlop/s Peak, 8 TB RAM |
| 2013 | HPC-Cluster Taurus (HRSK-II): 135 TFlop/s Peak, 18 TB RAM |
| 2015 | HRSK-II Extension: 1,64 PFlop/s und 139 TB RAM |
| 2017/18 | HPC-DA (HRSK-II Extension) |