APEmille: the present
Schifano S. Fabio - INFN
Main Features:
3D-MESH of nodes
each node has a peak performance of 500Mflops
communication chip can perform:
first neighbour communication
the so called "rigid communication"
broadcast
64Mb memory per each node
Local Memory bandwith: 512Mb/s
Remote Memory bandwith: 64Mb/s
512 32-bit location RF
3W power dissipation / node
Status:
INFN - Roma1
256 nodes
Desy - Zeuthen
256 nodes
Univ. Paris Sud
64 nodes
Bielefeld
256 nodes
INFN - Roma2
128 nodes
INFN - Pisa
64 nodes
Dirac (TAO single)
37%
Dirac (hand single)
55%
Dirac (TAO double)
19%
(max 25%)
LBE (TAO single)
55%
APEmille has started full run production
HW reliable and SW under tuning
machine under construction by Neuricam/Eurotech