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ASC Program Director
James Peery
(jspeery@sandia.gov)
(505) 845-9490
ASC Communications
Reeta Garber
(ragarbe@sandia.gov)
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Red Storm is Sandia’s newest NNSA/ASC capability computing platform. Developed through a partnership between Sandia and Cray, Inc., it is based on the successful ASCI Red architecture, with improvements that follow technology curves. In particular, Red Storm uses commodity AMD Opteron processors, a custom interconnect, a lightweight kernel on compute nodes, Linux on service and I/O nodes, and the Lustre file system. As initially configured, Red Storm provides over 10,000 compute nodes for massively parallel computations. Application teams from the three defense laboratories are successfully using Red Storm to provide computational result in support of various Level 1 and Level 2 milestones. Red Storm placed sixth on the Top 500 list (ASCI Red, which is now retired, was first on this list for many years). Red Storm placed first in the baseline High Performance Computing benchmarks that most severely test the communication network. In addition, Red Storm is faster than all its competitors at performing climate simulations. Other benchmarking studies are ongoing. Red Storm is now ready for general availability. A series of large runs (5,000 processors and more) has demonstrated the ability of nuclear weapons applications to effectively use the system.