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 ...
Cray Doubles Size of One of World’s Largest Supercomputers
Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has completed acceptance of an upgrade to its Cray XT4™ ...
Pflops here; now what?
Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008
A handful of engineers at a lab in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., have assembled what they expect will become--at least for a while--the world's most powerful computer. The IBM Roadrunner likely will ...
Petascale Computing to Advance Climate Research
Posted on Apr 18th, 2008
From the birth of HPC, climate research has had a voracious appetite for computing resources. John Drake, chief computational scientist for the Climate End Station at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ...
ORNL team wins DOE Secretary’s Achievement Honor Award
Posted on Apr 15th, 2008
Gilbert G. Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate has received the inaugural James R. Schlesinger Award from Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
The Secretary lauded Weigand ...
New University of Tennessee Supercomputer Puts Innovation Valley at Forefront of Discovery
Posted on Apr 10th, 2008
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 ...
UT-ORNL victory makes a few waves
Posted on Apr 9th, 2008
The National Science Foundation funds research activities at universities in much the way the U.S. Department of Energy funds work at the national labs.
It's those traditional roles that stirred controversy ...