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Oak Ridge National Laboratory installs new Cray supercomputer
Posted on Dec 29th, 2008
Installation of another Cray XT5 supercomputer was completed in mid-December, further bolstering Oak Ridge National Laboratory's claim as a world-leading center for scientific computing.
The new system -- nicknamed Kraken, after ...
Supercomputer’s storage chosen for density, not performance
Posted on Dec 1st, 2008
A 10 PB file system that supports a new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs has been clocked at 240 GBps. Buddy Bland, project director for the Leadership Computing Facility ...
Argonne, Oak Ridge labs sweep HPC Challenge
Posted on Dec 1st, 2008
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's High Performance Computing Challenge has recognized supercomputers at the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory for their superior performance.
The winners ...
Oak Ridge Supercomputer Wins Big at HPC Challenge
Posted on Nov 20th, 2008
A Cray XT5 supercomputer named Jaguar that runs scientific applications at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) placed in three out of four categories at ...
The Search for Stable Storage
Posted on Nov 19th, 2008
A team led by Thomas Schulthess of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has broken the petaflop barrier with a supercomputing application likely to accelerate the revolution in magnetic storage.
Using ORNL's ...
Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science
Posted on Nov 19th, 2008
A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since ...
ORNL’s Jaguar is No. 2 fastest computer in the world
Posted on Nov 19th, 2008
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar is the world's second-fastest computer, according to the Top500 rankings released Monday.
The Oak Ridge computer, a Cray XT5 system, recently broke the petaflops barrier - ...
Cray Supercomputer at Oak Ridge Smashes Sustained Petaflops Record
Posted on Nov 17th, 2008
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the Cray XT supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) set a new world record for computer speed ...
First look: ORNL assembling 2nd petaflops machine
Posted on Nov 17th, 2008
Just days after Jaguar was declared the world's fastest supercomputer for science (at 1.64 petaflops), Oak Ridge National Laboratory is getting to work on Kraken -- another Cray machine that ...
Busting petaflop barrier, Cray’s Jaguar may be world’s fastest computer
Posted on Nov 12th, 2008
About five months after IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer became the fastest computer in the world, Cray Inc.'s XT Jaguar could dethrone it next week.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week ...
