Title :
The Terascale Simulation Facility: built for flexibility, scalability and reliability
Author :
Bailey, Anna Maria
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory´s $91 million Terascale Simulation Facility (TSF) will soon house the fastest supercomputers in the world that perform trillions of operations per second (teraops). The anticipated electrical power requirements for teraops scale computing and the next generation systems drove the design of the facility. The Laboratory will soon commission an automated fast source transfer scheme that serves the 13.8 kV switchgear that distributes power to TSF.
Keywords :
design engineering; engineering facilities; mainframes; parallel machines; power distribution; power supplies to apparatus; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Terascale Simulation Facility; automated fast source transfer scheme; electrical power requirements; supercomputers; teraops scale computing; Buildings; Computational modeling; Laboratories; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Power system reliability; Reliability engineering; Scalability; Supercomputers; Switchgear;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2005. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9157-8
DOI :
10.1109/PES.2005.1489142
