By: TOP500 Team
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center recently accepted “Edison,” a new flagship supercomputer designed for scientific productivity. Named in honor of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, the Cray XC30 will be dedicated in a ceremony held at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on February 5, 2014, and scientists are already reporting results.
Edison by the Numbers
332 terabytes memory
2.39 petaflop/second peak performance
124,608 processing cores
462 terabytes/second global memory bandwidth
11 terabytes/second network bisection bandwidth
7.56 petabytes disk storage
163 gigabytes/second I/O bandwidth