Merope (supercomputer)

{{short description|NASA supercomputer}}

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Merope was a cluster composed of repurposed Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere) processors that were once part of the Pleiades supercomputer. The system is used both for running real-world computational jobs for NASA scientists and engineers and for testing purposes. Housed in an auxiliary processing center located about 1 kilometer from the NAS facility at NASA Ames Research Center.{{PD-notice|{{Cite web|url=https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/merope.html|title=Merope Supercomputer|website=www.nas.nasa.gov|access-date=2019-08-31}}}}

Merope (pronounced MEH-reh-pee) is named after one of the seven stars that make up the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.