The Guts of Chinook
Chinook was designed with unique components that are necessary for chemistry applications, yet the system is versatile and accessible to a variety of users across a broad spectrum of disciplines.
  • 163 teraflop/s of peak performance
  • 2,310 computing nodes
  • 4,620 Quad-core AMD Barcelona 2.2 gigahertz processors
  • 36.96 terabytes of memory
  • InfiniBand DDR 4x Interconnect
  • 1.3 petabytes of scratch disk space
  • 924 gigabytes per second of local disk bandwidth
  • 270 terabytes of global file system
  • 40 gigabits of network connectivity