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Super Power

Courtesy LSI Corp.

The Tera 100 supercomputer

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Company: LSI, a Milpitas, Calif.-based semiconductor and storage systems company

Market Cap: $2.9 billion*

As the French Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA, began searching for data storage technology for the Tera 100, one of the most powerful supercomputers ever designed in Europe, reliability and performance were top priorities. Why? Because the Tera 100 will be used for the CEA’s nuclear weapons simulation program, which is designed to guarantee the reliability of France’s nuclear weapons. The CEA’s military applications division turned to LSI Corp. (LSI), which has expertise in deploying high-performance storage in mission-critical applications such as oil and gas exploration, defense and biosciences. For CEA, LSI worked with high-performance computing specialist Bull SA (NYSE Euronext: BULL).

“A project on the scale of Tera 100 requires significant planning, engineering and validation to ensure the full system installation performs to expectations,” says Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager for the Engenio Storage Group at LSI. “High-performance storage coupled with supercomputers allows scientists to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.&rdquo