Cray Unveils New Cooling Technology For the Petascale Era
Posted on Sep 3rd, 2008
Cray, known for its power and packaging prowess since 1976, when Seymour Cray bent the Cray-1 into a "C" shape, is unveiling a petascale-era cooling technology it says is more ...
Milky Way’s Dark Matter Clumpier Than Thought
Posted on Aug 7th, 2008
Our galaxy's dark matter is clumpier than once thought, according to a new computer simulation.
The model, created by one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, shows that the ...
ET hoping to cash in on Chattanooga’s VW plant
Posted on Jul 16th, 2008
The announcement Tuesday that Volkswagen Group of America Inc. will build an automobile manufacturing plant in Chattanooga was greeted enthusiastically 112 miles away in Knoxville by those who say East ...
Researchers Conduct Breakthrough Fusion Simulation
Posted on Jul 15th, 2008
A team of researchers from the University of California-Irvine (UCI), in conjunction with staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), has just completed what it ...
Oak Ridge Labs Wants More Efficient Supercomputers
Posted on Jul 14th, 2008
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the DOE's largest science and energy laboratory, with 1.3 billion dollars of research per year, studying colossal magneto-resistance, climate ...
The supercomputers of Oak Ridge National Lab
Posted on Jul 11th, 2008
If you want to see someone's face light up, try talking to a scientist in a supercomputer lab about their machines.
I had that experience last week when, as the last ...
ORNL’s Jaguar No. 5 on Top500 list
Posted on Jun 23rd, 2008
A supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the fifth fastest in the world, while a supercomputer it plans to have in operation by next year will be much ...
The Top 500 Super Ranking Now Counts Watts as Well as Flops
Posted on Jun 20th, 2008
The 31st edition of the semi-annual Top 500 listing of supercomputers in the world was announced this week at the International Supercomputing Conference 2008 event in Dresden, Germany, and the ...
UT supercomputer makes list of 500 fastest
Posted on Jun 20th, 2008
A University of Tennessee supercomputer is still in its infancy, but the powerful machine — known as Kraken — has already made the list of the world’s 500 fastest computers.
Kraken, ...
Top 500 supercomputers: Welcome to the petaflop generation
Posted on Jun 20th, 2008
Welcome to the petaflop generation. That was the message today as the new most powerful supercomputer in the world IBM's $100 million Roadrunner system installed at the Department of Energy's ...