Scandinavia’s most powerful computer

A brand-new supercomputer, worth NOK 62 million, has been installed at Gløshaugen, NTNU.

The computer is the most powerful in Scandinavia, and it will be the flagship of the Norwegian high-performance computing project, in which all four Norwegian universities participate. The computer has been manufactured by Silicon Graphics. It weighs over 30 tons and is 46 square metres. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Statoil, and SINTEF are among the institutions that will be making use of the machine.

NTNU’s new pride and joy is capable of carrying out one billion mathematical operations per second. It is really a parallel computer, consisting of 898 interconnected smaller computers. Total disk space is more than six terabytes, and the computer has 800 gigabytes of internal memory.