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AUSTIN, TX, Nov 18, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Cisco (CSCO: 15.65, -0.80, -4.9%) — SuperComputing 2008 — Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL) has selected the Cisco Nexus data center class platform as a foundation technology for its Hyperion project, a high performance computing Linux Cluster. Hyperion helps fulfill U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) goals to provide state-of the-art computing capabilities for national security, scientific computing and discovery, and to enhance U.S. competitiveness in high performance computing.

The Hyperion project takes advantage of industry leading technologies to create the largest testbed of its kind in the world for high performance Linux cluster computing technologies and make petaFLOP/s (quadrillion floating operations per second) computing and storage more accessible for commerce, industry, and research and development. The first phase of the project is deployed, with full completion planned for March 2009. When finished, the Hyperion cluster will have at least 1,152 nodes with 9,216 cores; with about 100 teraFLOP/s peak; over 9 TB of memory; InfiniBand(TM) 4x DDR interconnect and access to over 47 GB/s of RAID disk bandwidth.

An article talking about how this high performance computing project is using Cisco switches as part of it’s solution. It’s always great to see what technologies are being used and how they are being put together to deliver a service, to add value.

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