SKIF K-1000

SKIF K-1000 is ranked among the Top 100 world's mightiest machines in the 24th Top500 list. This cluster was built by T-Platforms for the joint Russian-Belorussian governmental supercomputer “SKIF” program in October 2004.

The SKIF K-1000 supercomputer has shown the total Linpack performance of 2032 GFlops, which positioned it on the honorable 98th place in the overall Top-500 rating of the most powerful supercomputers on Earth. At present SKIF K-1000 is deployed at the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences, and is being used for scientific and engineering calculations.

SKIF K-1000 features include:

• modular system easily scalable to give up to 15 TFlops peak performance
• 288 1U dual compute nodes based on 576 AMD Opteron™ processors, 8 racks
• 2.5 TFlops peak performance (2.032 TFlops Linpack performance)
• T-Platforms proprietary 1U chassis design ensures effective cooling and stable work at temperatures up to +35ºC
• comfortable management, system startup/shutdown, and monitoring with ServNET service network (Program Systems Institute of RAS, T-Platforms)
• InfiniBand high-speed interconnect technology allows adding multiple external storage equipment
• highly efficient cost/performance ratio: less than 750K USD per 1 TFlop
• optimized OS Linux-SKIF core and management software based on Linux LocationLocation United United

Detailed specifications