The Peloton supercomputer purchase is a program at the

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

intended to provide tera-

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computing capability using commodity Scalable Units (SUs). Th
Peloton RFP
defines the system configurations. Atlas

Appro
was awarded the contract for Peloton which includes the following machines: All of the machines run the

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variant of

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and the

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resource management system. Under the project management of John Lee, the team at Synnex, Voltaire,

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and other suppliers, the scientists were able to dramatically reduce the amount of time it took to go from starting the cluster build to actually having hardware at Livermore in production. In particular, it went from having four SUs on the floor on a Thursday, to bringing in two more SUs for the final cluster and by Saturday, having all of them wired up, burned in, and running Linpack.

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