Science and Technology:Million Core Supercomputer Research at Stanford University

January 30, Stanford University Turbulence Research (CTR) in the field of computer science before setting a new record - the use of a super computer has more than one million computers core successfully solve a complex flow dynamicsproblems.

Stanford units Sequoia supercomputer not run the fastest, but at the same time to use one million processing cores or the world for the first time. Currently the fastest computer in the world is the U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray Titan, a core number of 500,000.

Sequoia was once the most powerful supercomputers in the world performance, the use of the system architecture, IBM Bluegene / Q, with 1,572,864 calculated core (processor) and 1.6PB memory.

Sequoia performance can only be ranked second, but it has the core of the world's largest computing center research assistant Joseph Nichols. "Except that it allows us to run more than one million core simulation." He said.