The World's First CRAY T3E Retires

PITTSBURGH, October 11, 2004 — After nearly eight years of faithful service, PSC’s Cray T3E — known to users as Jaromir — was retired on September 30. Installed in April 1996, Jaromir was the first CRAY T3E system shipped from Cray Research. The initial 256-processor configuration expanded in April 1997 to 512 processors. Over the span of its service, Jaromir provided 25 million CPU hours to more than 3,000 researchers.

Among many notable research projects that relied on Jaromir are:

breakthroughs in severe storm forecasting with the Advanced Regional Prediction System developed at the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms at the University of Oklahoma.
code development of the first research software to crack the teraflop barrier, the locally self-consistent multiple scattering (LSMS) method, which led to the 1998 Gordon Bell Prize.
the first simulation of protein folding extended for a full microsecond.

Although Jaromir was a reliable performer, more powerful and cost-effective PSC platforms are now available — especially including LeMieux, PSC’s terascale system, complemented by PSC’s twin 128-processor, 512-gigabyte HP GS1280 shared-memory “Marvel” systems (Rachel and Jonas). Soon to arrive at PSC, the newest high-performance system from Cray, Inc. — provisionally named Red Storm — carries forward some of the most successful features of the T3E.

Contacts:

Michael Schneider
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
schneider@psc.edu
412.268.4960

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