324-node/100 Teraflops System Provides a Bridge to Greater Science Productivity.

NSF awarded SDSC $2.8 million to build and deploy a new high-performance computer system called Trestles. Designed to increase productivity for a broad spectrum of researchers, Trestles houses 10,368 processor cores, a peak speed of 100 teraflop/s, and 38 terabytes of flash memory. It began operations before the end of 2010 and remained in use for three years under the NSF award. The system worked with and spanned the deployments of SDSC’s Dash system and its larger Gordon data-intensive system, which became operational in mid-2011. Like Dash, Trestles was available to users of the TeraGrid, then the nation’s largest open-access scientific discovery infrastructure.