Most supercomputers attaches’ utmost importance to pure calculation performance with powerful processors, more recently, graphics chips, for the fastest possible way to carry out the various calculations required of them. But when the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SCSC) is now beginning to build a new supercomputer to the National Science Foundation (NSF) is also the storage system in focus, which has led to the first supercomputer on the market with solid-state drives to increase performance and lower power consumption.

SCSC has chosen to go to Intel, which will help not only with processing platform, but also solid-state technology to the supercomputer.

Supercomputer is built up of nodes, where each base platform comes with a computing power of 240 gigaflops and 64GB of RAM. 32 of these basnoder packed together into "super nodes" that will increase the performance of 7.7 teraflops. The complete computer system makes use of 32 pieces of super nodes in order to achieve the maximum performance of 245 teraflops. What will make the system as one of the world's 30 fastest supercomputers.

With a high-speed internet at 16Gbps will Gordon's 32 super-node to work with, among other things, earthquake simulations with three-dimensional seismic images that just require high-speed storage.