Super Models
Posted on Feb 5th, 2007
Last year, the Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced it would commission the first petascale computer - a computer capable of 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. The machine, ...
Up and Running Super Smoothly
Posted on Feb 2nd, 2007
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newest computer is purring like a cat, and maybe that's to be expected. It is, after all, a part of the lab's "Jaguar" system, a Cray ...
High-tech Race Heats Up
Posted on Jan 23rd, 2007
The University of Tennessee is one of four finalists to receive $200 million in federal money to build the world's fastest computer -- one able to perform a quadrillion calculations ...
DOE to Track Uranium Plume
Posted on Jan 9th, 2007
The Department of Energy will dedicate 1 million hours of supercomputer processing time to better understand the movement of the uranium plume in the ground water at the Hanford nuclear ...
ORNL Team Discovers New Way to Spin Up Pulsars
Posted on Jan 4th, 2007
In 1967, a Cambridge University graduate student poring over data from a newly constructed radio telescope noticed something very odd--a radio signal blinking regularly from a far corner of the ...
Swirly Shock Waves May Spin Pulsars like a Top
Posted on Jan 3rd, 2007
Researchers may finally have hit on why pulsars, the rotating balls of neutrons that pepper the universe, spin the way they do. Simulations indicate that the key may be a ...
Cray Signs $250 Million Agreement With DARPA to Develop Breakthrough Adaptive Supercomputer
Posted on Nov 21st, 2006
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) announced today that it has been awarded a $250 million agreement from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Under this agreement, ...
Lab’s Existing Jaguar Won’t Meet Other Half Immediately
Posted on Oct 24th, 2006
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar will become a two-headed beast - at least for a few weeks.
The Cray supercomputer, already the fastest U.S. machine for open scientific uses at 54 ...
ORNL Researchers Using Super Computer to Forecast Future
Posted on Sep 12th, 2006
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using some of the fastest computers in the world to predict the climate a century from now.
The computers at ORNL are so ...
DOE Shares INCITE with Industry
Posted on Aug 25th, 2006
In mid-2005, the Department of Energy adopted the Council on Competitiveness' recommendation to expand the INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) program to include industry, along ...