International consortium ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) will have computer services Forschungszentrum Jülich, a German company embarks on an ambitious project that aims to be the definitive solution to the energy problem on the planet.
Achim Bachem, Chairman of the German center, said they feel proud that the international consortium has chosen to use its research center "Jülich show what Europe can do for supercomputing energy research."
The challenge of this supercomputer is helping physicists to understand the behavior of the plasma inside the reactor containment ring to be built in the French city of Cadarache. 8640 will be equipped with Intel quad-core Nehalem EP with frequencies of 2.93 GHz, and 24 Gbytes of main memory. The infrastructure is based on the NovaScale R422 servers-E2 of the French company Bull, with the network in charge of the Israelites from Mellanox and operating system and software provided by the German company ParTec.
This project will cost approximately 10,300 million euros and will become the second most expensive scientific project in history. If the project meets its mission, the human race will have unlimited energy for centuries and probably millennia.
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