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January 22, 2020

Network interconnect cabling on Frontera's compute nodes

Over 50 miles of network interconnect cabling enable the Frontera supercomputer's compute nodes to communicate to each other and to the network servers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

[Frontera is funded by the National Science Foundation under grant OAC 1818253.]

Learn more about Frontera in the TACC news story Frontera named 5th fastest supercomputer in the world. (Date image taken: June 2019; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Jan. 22, 2020)

Credit: TACC


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