Edison
NERSC's newest supercomputer, named Edison after U.S. inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison, will have a peak performance of more than 2 petaflops (PF, or 1015 floating point operations per second) when fully installed in 2013. The integrated storage system will have more than 6 petabytes (PB) of storage with an I/O bandwidth of 140 gigabytes (GB) per second. The product is known as a Cray XC30 (internal name "Cascade"), and the NERSC acquistion project is known as "NERSC-7."
Edison will be installed in two phases; we are currently in phase 1. See the configuration page for more details.
File Storage and I/O
The Edison system has 4 different file systems; they provide different levels of disk storage, I/O performance and file permanence. Read More »
Systems Technology Documentation
PDFs describing Cray XC30 processors, networking and file systems. Read More »
Cray XC30 User Documentation
Cray documents describing the XC30 programming environment. Read More »
Known issues
Check this page to see which issues have already been reported and workarounds for them. Read More »
Cray XC30 Press Release
Cray has announced the launch of the Company’s next generation high-end supercomputing systems – the Cray XC30 supercomputer. Read More »
