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A supercomputer that can perform 28.16 trillion calculations has been developed by a scientist of Indian origin. The supercomputer named Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine has been created by Srinivas Aluru from the Iowa State University.
Cystrom is powered with a 3,200 computer processor which makes it to do 28.16 trillion calculations in a second. This speed is five times that of IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer CyBlue.It uses 2,048 processors and can perform 5.7 trilion calculations in one second.
Aluru who is a professor of computer engineering at the Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl spearheaded the project. Cystorm is 3.3 times more powerful than CyBlue.
Aluru said, “Cystorm is going to be very good for data-intensive research projects,” The capabilities of Cystorm will help Iowa State researchers do new, pioneering research in their fields.”
The supercomputer will be used for fields such as materials science, power systems and systems biology.
The data from the university’s Local Electrode Atom Probe microscope, an instrument that can gather data and produce images at the atomic scale of billionths of a meter, can be analysed by material scientists using the supercomputer.
The supercomputer will help the system biologists to build gene networks .It will help researchers to understand interaction of genes with each other.
The supercomputer will help the power system researchers to study the security, reliability and efficiency of the energy infrastructure of the US.
A software infrastructure which can identify relevant information sources can be built by the computer engineers using the supercomputer.
A summary of the Cystorm project said, “These research efforts will lead to significant advances in the penetration of high performance computing technology.”
