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Diamond Configuration Summary

Image of the SGI ICE - Diamond Diamond contains 1,920 compute nodes (15,360 compute cores). Each compute node contains two 2.8‑GHz Intel Xeon 64‑bit quad‑core Nehalem processors and 24 GBytes of dedicated memory. The nodes are connected to each other in a HyperCube topology DDR 4X InfiniBand network. Diamond has 721 TBytes of InfiniBand RAID disk storage and a peak performance of 172 TFLOPS.

Performance Features


Processors 1,920 2.8-GHz Dual Quad-Core Compute Nodes
Computational Cores 15,360
Computational Capacity 172 peak TFLOPS
Aggregate Memory Size 45 TBytes
Total Disk Storage 721 TBytes of InfiniBand RAID
Network Interface InfiniBand (DDR 4X, 20 Gbit/sec)

Last update: January 13, 2010

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