Lomonosov_Supercomputer - peregrineshahin/ChessProgrammingWiki GitHub Wiki


title: Lomonosov Supercomputer

Home * Hardware * Lomonosov Supercomputer

Lomonosov Supercomputer [1] Lomonosov Supercomputer,

a Russian supercomputer, designed by T-Platforms and installed at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2009. The system launch ceremony was attended by Dmitry A. Medvedev, then President of the Russian Federation, who proposed to name the supercomputer after the great Russian 18th century scientist and founder of the MSU, Mikhail Lomonosov.

Initially, the computer consisted of a main section of 4160 4-core Intel x86-64 Xeon 5570 processors, and a second section including 260 X5570 and local hard drives, Blade2 server nodes interconnected by InfiniBand quad data rate serial links. In 2011, the Lomonosov computer was supplemented with 777 nodes equipped with GPU-based NVIDIA Tesla X2070 accelerators, and in 2012 further expanded with 288 nodes of Xeon X5570/X5670 processors and GPU accelerators.

Lomonosov Tablebases

One scientific as well as commercial research application using the Lomonosov Supercomputer was the generation of the 7-men Lomonosov Tablebases [4] headed by Victor Zakharov and Vladimir Makhnychev [5] . As of December 31, 2013, the tablebases are commercially available online through ChessOK products [6] .

See also

Publications

External Links

References

  1. Russia Accelerates Scientific Innovation with GPU Supercomputers|NVIDIA
  2. T-Platforms (2012). Lomonosov Supercomputer.
  3. ↑ Clustrx HPC software by T-Platforms
  4. Endgame tablebase from Wikipedia - Background
  5. 7-man TB - Google+
  6. Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases - ChessOK
  7. Vladimir Putin from Wikipedia
  8. Viktor Sadovnichiy from Wikipedia

Up one Level