Altix can be used in single system image configurations up to 512 processors or as a supercluster that equips up to 2,048 processors with globally addressable memory. |
In 2001, a massive supercluster of galaxies 500-million light years in length was found 6.5-billion light years from Earth. |
The purpose is to learn our place in the vast universe: planet Earth, solar system, Milky Way galaxy, Virgo supercluster. |
The main body of the Coma cluster has a diameter of about 25 million light-years, but enhancements above the background can be traced out to a supercluster of a diameter of about 200 million light-years. |
Astronomers recently placed the milky Way on the fringe of a huge supercluster. |
At an even grander scale, the Local Group and dozens of other galaxy clusters are part of a galaxy supercluster known as the Local Supercluster. |