Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam
- Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam
SARA (Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam) is a Dutch foundation that provides facilities in the area of supercomputers, colocation, networks and high-end visualisation. In these areas SARA has extensive expertise, both in usage and management of the facilities.
SARA was founded in 1970 for delivering computer facilities to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam and the Mathematics Centre (now Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica). Even now SARA mainly serves the academic world.
Next to a location in Amsterdam, in the Science Park Amsterdam in Watergraafsmeer, SARA also has a location in Almere.
SARA also offers colocation and hosting these days, and is one of the six locations of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.
Supercomputers
* Huygens
** IBM System p-575 (3328 x POWER6 @ 4.7GHz)
* Lisa
**Dell PowerEdge 1850 (1360 × Xeon EM64T @ 3.4 GHz)
* GinA
** Dell PowerEdge 1950 (40x Xeon Quadcore E5355 @ 2.66GHz)
** Supermicro Twin (162 x Quadcore E5420 @ 2.5Ghz)
Previous supercomputers:
* Huygens
** IBM System p5-575 (1920 x POWER5+ @ 1.9GHz)
* Aster
**SGI Altix 3700 (416 × Itanium II @ 1.3 GHz)
*Teras
**SGI Origin 3800 (1024 × MIPS R14000 @ 500 MHz)
* SOLO
**IBM pSeries 690 (192 × POWER4 @ 1.1/1.7 GHz)
* Matrix
**IBM xSeries 335 (72 × Xeon @ 3.06 GHz)For high-end visualization, SARA offers among others:
*CAVE: a 3-dimensional based on projection multiuser-virtual reality-system
*Immersadesk: a derivative of the CAVE with a single projection screen
External links
* http://www.sara.nl/index_eng.html
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