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Advanced Architecture—Lightning
Lightning, a Linux cluster system at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has 1,408 dual-processor AMD Opteron nodes with a Myrinet interconnect and a peak speed of 43 teraOPS/s. Lightning has 50 terabytes of temporary high-speed parallel storage and enjoys an award-winning architecture developed at Los Alamos (Science Appliance) and a software suite (Clustermatic) that can completely control a cluster.