NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- SC10 -- LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that LSI™ Engenio® storage
system technology has been installed as part of the world's sixth
fastest supercomputer at the Military Applications Division (DAM)
of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). With theoretical
processing power of 1.25 petaflops, CEA's Tera 100 supercomputer
ranks among the world's fastest supercomputers in the newly
published TOP500 list, the biannual ranking of the world's most
powerful supercomputer sites.
The implementation of LSI storage technology at CEA/DAM is part
of an ongoing OEM partnership between LSI and Bull, a leading
high-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider based in
Europe. CEA, a government-funded
technology research organization, initiated a collaborative program
with Bull in 2008 designed to extend the capability of the Tera 100
supercomputing center.
"Supercomputing solutions are essential technology that help to
accelerate scientific research by supporting the requirements of
the world's most demanding application environments," said
Jacques-Charles Lafoucriere, Chef de Service, CEA/DAM. "By offering
a balance between processing power, data throughput and fault
tolerance, the LSI storage system technology has enabled us to
support the widest possible range of computer simulation
applications running at the Tera 100 supercomputing center."
The Tera 100 storage cluster combines bullx S Series servers and
LSI Engenio storage technology to deliver 200GB/s bandwidth to the
CEA IT center's 15 petabyte clustered infrastructure running the
Lustre™ file system.
"LSI is proud to be providing the data storage backbone of one
of the world's leading supercomputing centers," said Steve Hochberg, senior director, HPC segment,
LSI. "This is a testament to the exceptional performance and
reliability of LSI storage system technology, and we're honored to
play an integral role in the critical scientific research conducted
at this premier government facility."
With over 200 petabytes deployed in HPC environments and more
than 500,000 systems shipped across a wide range of workloads and
market segments, LSI Engenio storage systems are helping to
accelerate scientific research and innovation for many of the
world's largest government and university-based research
centers.
Demonstrations of LSI storage system technology are available at
the SC10 conference (Booth #2946) taking place November 15-18 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention
Center in New Orleans.
More information about the LSI HPC business is available at
www.lsi.com/hpc.
About the TOP500 List
The TOP500 list is compiled by Hans
Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich
Strohmaier and Horst Simon of
NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. More
information is available at http://www.top500.org/.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products
which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content
together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and
services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters,
systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking
markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
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