Columbia is the name of a supercomputer, which was taken in the year 2004 by the American space agency NASA in enterprise. It is used particularly for Simulationen, in order to compute for example the behavior of rockets or the space shuttle during the flight.

The SGI Altix computer is in the Ames Research center in Mountain View, California and was at the time of its start-up the fastest computer of the world. According to NASA it consists 512, thus 10,240 Itanium 2 processors with an output of 51,87 TFLOPS of 20 x. In June 2005 it is thereby according to Top 500 the second fastest computer of the world.

It received its name Columbia and honour on 1 February 2003 space shuttles Columbia had an accident.

See also

• BlueGene
• Earth simulator
• MareNostrum

Related links

• NASA web page over the supercomputer
• Entry in the Top 500 list
• "“A miracle each day"” of Tom Sperlich, Technology Review 09/2005, laboratory

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• NAS Computing Resources - Columbia Supercomputer
  Technical description of the 10240-processor Columbia supercomputer operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center.


• NAS Project: Columbia
  TM)s Columbia supercomputer, a 10240-processor SGI Altix located at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility at NASA Ames Research Center.


• NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
  COLUMBIA SUPERCOMPUTER + Highlights · + Scientific Projects ... By boosting its computing capacity ten-fold through the Columbia supercomputer, ...


• SGI - Features: One Giant Leap - How NASA, SGI and Intel managed ...
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• SGI - Press Releases: NASA's Columbia Supercomputer is World's Fastest
  "Unlike other recent supercomputer speed announcements, the Columbia world speed ... NASA unveiled new details of its Columbia supercomputer in a dedication ...