Eva's supercomputer 'MAGI system' actually exists



In the play of the animation 'Neon Genesis Evangelion', a supercomputer ' MAGI system ' consisting of three computers appears, but it seems that this 'MAGI system' actually exists.

In the play, the names 'Kasper', 'Balthazar', and 'Melchior' were given to each of the three computers, taking their names from the three wise men who came from the east and appeared at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. But what is the actual MAGI system like?

the detail is right below.
Bioinformatics Research Center [CBRC] | Computer System [NEC Cluster]

According to this page, the actual 'MAGI system' is operating in the 'Bioinformatics Research Center', which is conducting research and development of bioinformatics, in the independent administrative agency 'National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology'. There seems to be.

In addition to Caspar, which is in charge of molecular functional systems, Balthazar, which is in charge of life systems, and Melchior, which is in charge of genetic information systems, Mary is in charge of molecular functional systems. It is composed of 1040 Pentium III 933MHz CPUs, 520GB of memory and 19152GB of HDD (about 19TB). The OS is Red Hat Linux 7.1.

Caspar is in the foreground and Balthazar is in the back.



The front half is Mary and the back is Melchior.



According to the following release, this 'MAGI system' developed in 2001 achieved the world's highest performance in a large-scale PC cluster system equipped with Pentium in the CPU at that time.

Press Release Achieves the world's highest performance in a large-scale PC cluster system equipped with Pentium

I'm wondering where the idea for the name 'MAGI system' came from.

in Note,   Anime, Posted by darkhorse_log