Arctur-1 was a supercomputer located in

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which is used by scientific and technical users in technologically intensive industries and research. In 2017 it was replaced by Arctur-2. The High Performance Computer (HPC) was located in

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(Slovenia) and was put into operation in October 2010. Arctur-1 was built with 84

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dx360 M3 nodes, each with two

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X5650 cores (6 cores clocked at 2,66 GHz) for a total of 1008 cores, 2,66 terabytes of memory (2,66 gigabytes per core), reaching a peak processing power of 10 TFlops (Rpeak). Compute nodes are connected with InfiniBand QDR 40 Gbit/s. The supercomputer was managed by Arctur.{{cite web , url=https://www.arctur.si/hpc-and-cloud/ , title=High Performance Computing , website=Arctur , access-date=20 May 2018

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