transtec lands its largest-ever cluster commission
The transtec high-performance cluster system ordered by Honda Research Institute Europe bundles the power of 512 processorsTübingen, 6 March, 2006.
transtec AG, the German manufacturer of custom-tailored hardware solutions, has received an order from Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI Europe) for a large-scale high-performance cluster system. The Honda deal is worth more than a 1 million euros. HRI Europe (www.honda-ri.de), a subsidiary of Honda R&D Ltd, carries out basic research on intelligent systems.
The Japanese automaker selected transtec because of its ability to deliver a complete custom-tailored clustering solution tailored to Honda’s needs – from the selection of hardware all the way to hardware and software installation and configuration. transtec’s wide range of support offerings also played a role. As HRI Europe’s Chief Technology Officer Dr Bernhard Sendhoff put it, “The transtec solution is state-of-the-art. It provides the number-crunching capability we need for our CPU-intensive applications. We were impressed by transtec’s tender.“
The cluster system consists of 256 nodes connected over an Infiniband network thus giving 11.5 Tbit/s bandwidth, making it the largest clustering solution ever installed by transtec. Using two AMD Opteron 250 processors, each node delivers 2.5 Tflops peak. A distributed parallel storage system with a net capacity of 12 TB and an I/O throughput of more than 1GB/s ensures that there will be no storage bottlenecks.
The cluster system consists of 256 nodes connected over an Infiniband network thus giving 11.5 Tbit/s bandwidth, making it the largest clustering solution ever installed by transtec. Using two AMD Opteron 250 processors, each node delivers 2.5 Tflops peak. A distributed parallel storage system with a net capacity of 12 TB and an I/O throughput of more than 1GB/s ensures that there will be no storage bottlenecks.