Roadrunner TriBlade
Features
- Two QS22 Cell blades with 8 GB RAM each
- One LS21 Opteron blade with 16 GB RAM
- One Expansion blade.
- Four slots wide
Custom made module for the Roadrunner supercomputer design. An expansion blade connects two QS22 modules via four PCIe x8 links to a LS21 module, two links for each QS22. It also provides outside connectivity via an Infiniband 4x DDR adapter. This makes a total width of four slots for a single TriBlade. Three TriBlades fit into one BladeCenter H chassis.
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