University of Colorado Boulder’s (CU Boulder) Research Computing Group, part of the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC), had been running on their Janus supercomputing cluster since late 2010. In 2016, they installed their next-generation system named RMACC Summit, which is supported by CU Boulder and Colorado State University (CSU), to enhance ongoing research and discovery in a variety of areas. RMACC Summit is built on Dell EMC PowerEdge* C6320 Server nodes with Intel® Xeon® processor E5 and E7 family with Intel® Xeon PhiTM processor nodes planned in 2017, all interconnected by Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) fabric. RMACC Summit is expected to be nearly 2.5X faster with only one- third the node count and almost half the cores. Challenge Janus was a 1

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