The teracluster LSSC-II installed at the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences is one of the most powerful PC clusters in China. It has a peek performance of 2Tflops. With a Unpack performance of 1.04Tflops, it is ranked at the 43rd place in the 20th TOP500 List (November 2002), 51st place in the 21st TOP500 List (June 2003), and the 82nd place in the 22nd TOP500 List (November 2003) with a new Linpack performance of 1.3Tflops. In this paper, we present some design principles of this cluster, as well as its applications in some large-scale numerical simulations.
ZHANG Linbo, CHEN Shiyi, LI Xinliang, CAO Jianwen, ZHANG Wensheng & GONG XingaoState Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China