World's Fastest Supercomputer To Be Built At ORNL

Homey R writes "As I'll be joining the staff there in a few months, I'm very excited to see that Oak Ridge National Lab has won a competition within the DOE's Office of Science to build the world's fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It will be based on the promising Cray X1 vector architecture. Unlike many of the other DOE machines that have at some point occupied #1 on the Top 500 supercomputer list, this machine will be dedicated exclusively to non-classified scientific research (i.e., not bombs)." Cowards Anonymous adds that the system "will be funded over two years by federal grants totaling $50 million. The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."

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I find it interesting

[Eagle5596]

that when one looks at their available graduate research programs, they only have summer research opportunities for blacks and other minorities. Why is this legal? Should we be allowing a government facility to participate in such extreme racism? Why should someone who is more qualified for the same position be denied the position solely on the basis of the color of his/her skin? I've got news for you, if said minority is in grad school, and already has the skills necessary to be useful at a government labs graduate research, they don't need affirmative action.