The monster computer has 82 Sun Blade 6048 Modular Systems racks, with each rack containing 48 Sun Fire 6000 Blade Servers. Ranger includes 15,744 AMD quad-core processors, 1.7 petabytes of storage capacity, and 125 terabytes of memory. The supercomputer also serves as a link between two Sun data center switches with an average bandwidth of 110 terabits.
"Ranger is the most powerful general-purpose supercomputing system for research ever," said TACC Director Jay Boisseau.
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