Merope (supercomputer)

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.^[1]

Merope
Design
Manufacturer	Silicon Graphics International
Release date	circa 2016
Decommission date	May 12, 2021
Casing
System
Operating system	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
CPU	Intel Xeon X5670
Memory	86 TB
FLOPS	252 teraflops
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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.