Large-Memory Resource First of its Kind among Major HPC Systems.

Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, SDSC unveiled a “super-sized” version – a “flash” memory-based supercomputer that accelerates investigation of a wide range of data-intensive science problems. The new High-Performance Computing (HPC) system, dubbed “Dash,” was an element of the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive resource primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers that went online earlier in 2009. As envisioned, this “system within a system” was designed to help researchers looking for solutions to particularly data-intensive problems that arise in astrophysics, genomics and many other domains of science.