May 13 News, for the 18th of the upcoming online knowledge Computing engine Wolfram, many people in the industry worry about other can withstand huge network traffic. Wolframresearch today responded to industry concerns that the service was built on the world's 66th fastest supercomputer.
According to a list of the world's top 500 supercomputers in November 2008, this supercomputer, built by Rsystems using Dell Hardware, can perform 39.6 trillion times per second. With such a powerful performance, the knowledge engine for Alpha, which combines charting, searching, and reference books, and not only for some factual and data-intensive issues, but also for mathematical operations, does have considerable help.
"We can't predict how much traffic is going to happen, especially in the period after the launch, but we are working very hard to prepare a reasonable capacity," Wolframresearch said on its official blog. Will we have enough computational power to provide the computational knowledge to every visitor? I hope so.
According to the website of 500 supercomputers, this supercomputer, known as Rsmarr, has 4,608 processing cores, with 576 four core "Harpertown" Xeon hosts, 65536GB of RAM, and high-speed InfiniBand data transmission connectors. It also uses the Redhat enterpriselinux and Microsoft Windows HPC server operating system. Rsmarr is not a generic Dell server, but a specially tailored host through Dell's Datacentersolutions (Data center Solutions) department.
Wolframresearch said the search engine's requirements would be handled by five facilities in the same area. The program actually has two supercomputers, with a total of nearly 10,000 processing cores and hundreds of TB of hard disk space.
It is understood that Wolfram also uses the Mathematica software, known as the gold standard in computer science, to perform many different mathematical and image operations.
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