SDSC Welcomes ’Gordon’ Supercomputer as a Research Powerhouse

When it officially comes online in early January, Gordon , a unique new supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), will help researchers tackle the most vexing data-intensive challenges, from mapping genomes for personalized medicine to rapidly calculating thousands of "what-if" scenarios affecting everything from traffic patterns to climate change. Gordon is capable of handling massive data bases while providing up to 100 times faster speeds when compared to hard drive disk systems for some queries. Here's a look at Gordon's calculating "horsepower." - o 4 petabytes of disk storage. One petabyte equals a quadrillion (1,000 trillion) bytes of information. It would take 1,900 years to listen to a petabyte's worth of songs - if you had a large enough MP3 player! o 64 terabytes of random access memory. Just one terabyte equals all the information printed on paper made from 50,000 trees. Gordon's 64 terabytes of RAM is more than 16,000 times the memory of a standard MacBook Pro.
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