National University of Science and Technology (NUST) inaugurated its fastest supercomputer facility in a ceremony held on Tuesday at its Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS).
The supercomputer installed in NUST is the fastest GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) based parallel computing system operating in any organization/academic institute in Pakistan till date.
The supercomputer can perform parallel computation at a peak speed of 132 Teaflops (132 Trillion Operations per second). It is equipped with multicore processors and graphics co-processors with inter-processor communication speed of 40 Gbps.
Specifications:
- 66 NODE supercomputer with 30,992 processor cores
- 2 Head Node (16 Processor Cores)
- 32 Dual Quad Core Computer Nodes (256 Processor Cores)
- 32 Nvidia Computing Processors
- Each processor has 960 Processor Cores (30,720) Processor Cores)
- QDR Infinitude Interconnection
- 21.6TB SAN Storage
Imagination ceremony was presided over by Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr. Javaid Laghari.
Principle RCMS, Engr Sikandar Hayat speakiung at the ceremony, highlighted some of the unique features of this state of the art computing facility recently acquired by NUST through financial grant by Minister of Science and Technology.
Rector NUST, Engr. Muhammad Asghar, in his address said that, “This will give an impetus for collaborative research between universities and other research organizations within the country and abroad.
