Active | 2006 |
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Location | CeSViMa (UPM) Spain |
Architecture | 64-bit Power ISA: PowerPC (2006-2010) IBM POWER7 (2011-2019); x86-64 (Xeon) (2019 onward) |
Operating system | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; CentOS |
Memory | 13.056,0 TB |
Speed | 182.78 TFlops[1] |
Ranking | TOP500: 136, June 2011 |
Website | http://www.cesvima.upm.es |
Magerit is one of the most powerful supercomputers in Spain. It also reached the second best Spanish position in the TOP500 list of supercomputers. It is installed in CeSViMa, a research center of the Technical University of Madrid.
Magerit was first installed in 2006 and reached the 9th fastest in Europe and the 34th in the world,[2] the second best position of a Spanish supercomputer in the list. It also reached the 275th position in the first Green500 list published.[3] It is no longer among the TOP500.
The second version, installed in 2011 reached the 1st position of Spain, 44th of Europe and 136th fastest of the world.[4] It also reached the 18th position in the Green500 list.[5]
Magerit (for *Materit or *Mageterit) is the most ancient recorded name of the current city of Madrid. The name comes from the Arabic name of a fortress built on the Manzanares River in the 9th century AD, and means "place of abundant water".[6]