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IslamabadIn an impressive ceremony held here on Tuesday at its Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University ofSciences and Technology (NUST) inaugurated its fastest supercomputing facility. The ceremony was presided over by Chairman HigherEducation Commission Dr Javaid R. Laghari.
While highlighting some of the unique features of this state-of-the-art computing facility, recently acquired by NUST through financial grant by Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Govt of Pakistan, Principal RCMS Engr. Sikandar Hayat informed the audience that the Super Computer installed in NUST was the fastest GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) based parallel computing system operating in any organization / academic institution in Pakistan till date.
This supercomputer can perform parallel computation at a peak speed of 132 Teraflops i.e. 132 Trillion Operations per second. It is equipped with multicore processors and graphics co-processors with inter-processor communication speed of 40 Gbps.
Besides its extensive utilization in the computation-intensive research projects in the areas of Fluid Dynamics and Biosciences, this massively parallel facility can also be utilized to handle huge data processing applications of social sciences such as Flood and Weather Forecasting, Oil and GasExploration, energy efficient building designs and transportation management at national-level.
NUST unveils fastest supercomputer | I R NUSTIAN
The new H-12 Campus is a great project. There are some problems (lack of funds) but happy to see my uni making progress
While highlighting some of the unique features of this state-of-the-art computing facility, recently acquired by NUST through financial grant by Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Govt of Pakistan, Principal RCMS Engr. Sikandar Hayat informed the audience that the Super Computer installed in NUST was the fastest GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) based parallel computing system operating in any organization / academic institution in Pakistan till date.
This supercomputer can perform parallel computation at a peak speed of 132 Teraflops i.e. 132 Trillion Operations per second. It is equipped with multicore processors and graphics co-processors with inter-processor communication speed of 40 Gbps.
Besides its extensive utilization in the computation-intensive research projects in the areas of Fluid Dynamics and Biosciences, this massively parallel facility can also be utilized to handle huge data processing applications of social sciences such as Flood and Weather Forecasting, Oil and GasExploration, energy efficient building designs and transportation management at national-level.
NUST unveils fastest supercomputer | I R NUSTIAN
The new H-12 Campus is a great project. There are some problems (lack of funds) but happy to see my uni making progress
may Allah bless us more...
