(Newswire.net — October 8, 2013) Dallas, Texas —
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) recently announced the AMG Services benchmark for testing upcoming Trinity and NERSC-8 systems. The new computing systems will be produced by a joint effort between the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Sandia National Laboratory.
NERSC functions as the main computing facility for the Office of Science and the Department of Energy. NERSC is one of the largest scientific computing facilities in the world and a leader in acceleration of scientific progress through computing. NERSC is used by over 5,000 scientists to perform calculations related to a wide range of scientific problems such as climate modeling, materials research, cosmological simulations, protein structure investigation and high energy physics data analysis.
The NERSC laboratory located in the UC Oakland Scientific Facility in Oakland, California is widely recognized as one of the most effective computing environments in the world. The recently released AMG Services benchmark is expected to assisted NERSC in maintaining a top tier computing facility as it works with the Alliance For Computing At Extreme Scale to produce two new systems for 2015 that will push extreme computing power even further. The new computer systems will assist NERSC in it’s mission to supply cutting edge resources to a diverse community of scientists working both within and outside of the Department of Energy.
The new AMG Services benchmark is available for download from the NERSC website. The benchmark code must be compiled prior to execution. The AMG Services benchmark tests system capabilities by running a parallel algebraic multigrid solver, which operates on linear systems arising from unstructured grids.
The recently released AMG Services benchmark code is intended to help computer scientists and other computing researchers during the submission of proposals for the two NERSC systems to be built in 2015.
NERSC provides high powered computing resources to scientific projects sanctioned by the Department of Energy and other research endeavors in need of extreme computing facilities.