The Amalka Supercomputing facility is the largest of the three Czech parallel supercomputers.I am Amálka, the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic (Google Translation from Czech) It is used by Department of Space Physics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
The primary task is computationMirror structures above and below the linear instability threshold: Cluster observations, fluid model and hybrid simulations and visualisation in the area of space research for the European Space Agency or NASA, such as a preparation of Demeter (satellite) launch.
Amalka Supercomputing facility is credited with computing the first kinetic magnetic field model of Mercury in the MESSENGER project.http://terezka.ufa.cas.cz/shs/amalka4/index.html MESSENGER: Exploration of Mercury's magnetosphere It also helped to understand the results from the Cluster II mission.
At present, the facility is supporting the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) project. The results will be useful in planning for creating permanent human bases on Moon that will be protected from solar wind.
The current version runs Linux slackware and delivers 6.38 TFlops. Expansion and optimization of the infrastructure is being implemented by Sprinx Systems.
Generation Year Processing Rate # of Computers # of CPUs # of Cores Other parameters11998units of MFlops88822000tens of GFlops16161632003around 1 TFlop96188188420062,6 TFlops138272360180 GB RAM, 20 TB HDD, 40 kW520074,07 TFlops326572620096,38 TFlops356800
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External links I am Amálka, the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic (Czech)