Tera 100

Mickaël Amiet, Patrick Carribault, Elisabeth Charon, Guillaume Colin De Verdiére, Philippe Deniel, Gilles Grospellier, Guénolé Harel, François Jollet, Lafoucriére Jacques-Charles, Lekien Acques-Bernard, Stéphane Mathieu, Marc Pérache, Weill Jean-Christophe, Gilles Wiber

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Abstract

The Tera 100 is the third machine of the Tera program implemented by Commissariat al’energieatomique et aux energies alternatives/Direction des Applications Militaires (CEA/DAM). The Tera program started as early as 1996, when France decided to end its nuclear tests and design and guarantee its deterrence through simulation. Tera 100, also designed by BULL, pushed the design even further in relying on the ubiquitous x86 64 architecture, thus providing a seamless environment to our users from the desktop to the supercomputer. Tera 100 is an exceptional general purpose computer, designed for classified workloads coming from various CEA/DAM laboratories. The Tera 100 system is more than a petaflop computing machine; it is a full computing center with all the services requested by CEA users. Tera’s long-term data storage is based on high performance storage system (HPSS), a hierarchical storage manager (HSM) sold by IBM.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationContemporary High Performance Computing
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Petascale toward Exascale
PublisherCRC Press
Pages45-74
Number of pages30
ISBN (Electronic)9781466568358
ISBN (Print)9781466568341
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

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