Electra (supercomputer)

Electra is a petascale supercomputer located at the Ames Research Center facility, manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2016 and commissioned at 2017.[1] This is the first modular supercomputer prototype designed by NASA, as part of its research on making supercomputing more efficient and environment-friendly. Its research resulted in the Aitken supercomputer, destined for moon landing and related research.[2]

Electra
Design
ManufacturerHewlett Packard Enterprise
Release date2016
Casing
Power1,685.73 KW
System
Operating systemSUSE Linux Enterprise Server
CPUIntel Xeon Gold 6148
Memory589,824 GB
FLOPS8.32 petaflops

Electra was in 12th place among the most powerful supercomputers in the United States, and 33rd place in the world, in the TOP500 list at November, 2018.[3]

It has 2,304 HPE SGI 8600 and SGI ICE X nodes, each with a second generation Intel Xeon dual CPU, delivering up to 8.32 theoretical petaflops, and 5.44 petaflops (LINPACK) as of June 2019.[1]

References
  1. "Electra Supercomputer". www.nas.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  2. Mahoney, Erin (2019-04-09). "NASA Accepts Challenge to Send American Astronauts to Moon in 2024". NASA. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  3. "Electra - HPE SGI 8600/SGI ICE-X, E5-2680V4/ Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz, Infiniband EDR/FDR-56 IB | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites". www.top500.org. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
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