Merope was a cluster composed of repurposed Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere) processors that were once part of the Pleiades supercomputer. The system is used both for running real-world computational jobs for NASA scientists and engineers and for testing purposes. Housed in an auxiliary processing center located about 1 kilometer from the NAS facility at NASA Ames Research Center.[1]
| Merope | |
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| Design | |
| Manufacturer | Silicon Graphics International |
| Release date | circa 2016 |
| Decommission date | May 12, 2021 |
| Casing | |
| System | |
| Operating system | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server |
| CPU | Intel Xeon X5670 |
| Memory | 86 TB |
| FLOPS | 252 teraflops |
Merope (pronounced MEH-reh-pee) is named after one of the seven stars that make up the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Merope Supercomputer". www.nas.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
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