DelftBlue 85 percent faster than previous hpc infrastructure in Delft
DelftBlue, the new supercomputer that TU Delft commissioned early last year, came about in partnership with Fujitsu and NetApp. Fujitsu helped the university assemble 15 powerful computers into a large cluster for high performance computing (hpc), and NetApp arranged scalable data storage. The contract, consisting of design, delivery, implementation and management, has a value of nearly 4.4 million euros and a five-year term.
According to vendors, the new supercomputer is 85 percent faster than the previous HPC infrastructure at TU Delft. It is said to have a maximum computational speed of two petaflops, or one million times one billion calculations per second. This puts DelftBlue at number 250 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
