Technical Specifications

High-level technical specifications

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Trinity High-level Technical Specifications
Operational Lifetime	2015 to 2020
Capability	8x improvement over Cielo in fidelity, physics, and performance capabilities
Architecture	Cray XC40
Memory capacity	2.07 PiB
Peak performance	41.5 PF/s
Number of compute nodes	19,420
Processor architecture	Intel Xeon (Haswell) & Intel Xeon Phi (Knights Landing)
Parallel file system capacity (usable)	78 PB
Parallel file system bandwidth (sustained)	1.45 TB/s
Burst buffer storage capacity (usable)	3.7 PB
Burst buffer bandwidth (sustained)	3.3 TB/s
Footprint	3773 sq ft (system) and 832 sq ft (storage)
Power requirement	8.6 MW

*A “flops” is an acronym meaning floating-point operations per second. One petaflop/s (PF) is 1,000 trillion operations per second.