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CRL Terascale system is an HPC Cluster designed based on HP Bladesystems dense computing platform populated with Intel's new Quad-core Xeon processor X5365. This has been installed and commissioned at the Computational Research Laboratory (CRL)'s new datacenter located at Pune, India. CRL is a supercomputing venture by TATA group of companies and a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Ltd., the biggest Indian Industrial conglomerate.  The CRL cluster has implemented the main cluster having 1822 HP Proliant BL460c blade servers and test clusters having 197 HP Proliant BL480c servers. The HP Bladesystems in the main cluster are interconnected with 5-stage CLOS network comprising of Infiniband 4X DDR switches from Mellanox and Voltaire. A variety of scientific and industrial applications can be efficiently deployed on this configuration with an excellent price/performance ratio. This main cluster system has been operational since October 2007.  For the top500 submission, the results using 1776 HP Proliant BL460c blade servers configuration are used.

Main Cluster's Facts:

• 172.224 teraFLOPS theoretical peak performance
• 1794 compute nodes
  12 service nodes
  12 I/O (lustre) nodes
• 14,352 compute node processor cores, 96 + 48 service and I/O node cores
• Intel Quad-core Xeon processor X5365 (3.0GHz, 1333 FSB)
• 28.704 terabytes of DDR memory
• 40 terabytes of high performance disk storage
• HP HPC Linux Operating Environment and HP XC Cluster System Software