What type of supercomputer systems are employed at Delta HPC?
Of the three main classes of general-purpose supercomputers, Delta HPC utilizes computers designed with architecture of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), which is currently the design of choice for the fastest supercomputers. NUMA computers utilize specially designed interconnects to have many processors and their memory communicate with each other. Processors and networking components are specifically designed for the machine. Vector Processing architecture is another class, which allows the same arithmetical operation to be executed on a large amount of data simultaneously. Another and more common supercomputer architecture is that of Commodity Clusters. This architecture design utilizes a large number of commodity PCs, which are interconnected by high-bandwidth low-latency local area networks. This is the architecture of the Linux cluster system.
