National Center for Computational Sciences

A new $65 million supercomputer is expected to catapult the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley to the lead in the worldwide race to find new medicines, materials and answers to environmental problems.

The computer, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will be capable of nearly 1,000 trillion calculations a second. It will be built and operated by the University of Tennessee (UT) at nearby Oak Ridge National Lab, which UT manages in partnership with Battelle. The new machine - especially when considered alongside Jaguar, the ultra powerful computer already housed at ORNL - makes the Innovation Valley a world leader in supercomputing.

“This permits us to work side by side with the Department of Energy’s supercomputing capability that’s already here for open science,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander.

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