Amalka Supercomputing facility

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The Amalka Supercomputing facility{{cite web|url=http://terezka.ufa.cas.cz/shs/index.html|title=Amalka Supercomputing facility homepage|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803121502/http://terezka.ufa.cas.cz/shs/index.html|archivedate=3 August 2009}} is the largest of the three Czech parallel supercomputers.[https://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itbiz.cz%2Fja_jsem_amalka_nejvykonnej_i_superpocitac_v_cr&sl=cs&tl=en&history_state0= I am Amálka, the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic (Google Translation from Czech)] It is used by Department of Space Physics,

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The primary task is computation[http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/36/28/05/PDF/AG_genot_09.pdf Mirror structures above and below the linear instability threshold: Cluster observations, fluid model and hybrid simulations] and visualisation in the area of space research for the European Space Agency or NASA, such as a preparation of Demeter (satellite) launch.

Amalka Supercomputing facility is credited with computing the first kinetic magnetic field model of Mercury in the MESSENGER project.http://terezka.ufa.cas.cz/shs/amalka4/index.html{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} MESSENGER: Exploration of Mercury's magnetosphere{{Dead link|date=February 2013}} It also helped to understand the results from the Cluster II mission.{{cite web|url=http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/index.html?tof/Missions/Cluster/clustermain.html |title=UNH Experimental Space Plasma Group |publisher=Ssg.sr.unh.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-04-09}}

At present, the facility is supporting the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) project. The results will be useful in planning for creating permanent human bases on Moon that will be protected from solar wind.

The current version runs Linux slackware and delivers 6.38 TFlops. Expansion and optimization of the infrastructure is being implemented by Sprinx Systems.

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Generation ! Year ! Processing Rate ! # of Computers ! # of CPUs ! # of Cores ! Other parameters
1 |1998 |units of MFlops |8 |8 |8 |
2 |2000 |tens of GFlops |16 |16 |16 |
3 |2003 |around 1 TFlop |96 |188 |188 |
4 |2006 |2,6 TFlops |138 |272 |360 |180 GB RAM, 20 TB HDD, 40 kW
5 |2007 |4,07 TFlops | |326 |572 |
6{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediakom.cz/intel/2009_11_11-Amalka/ |title=– photos from the 6th generation launch |access-date=2009-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125081554/http://www.mediakom.cz/intel/2009_11_11-Amalka/ |archive-date=2009-11-25 |url-status=dead }} |2009 |6,38 TFlops | |356 |800 |