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World's Fastest Supercomputer To Be Built At ORNL

Posted by timothy on from the right-near-dollywood dept.

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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  1. Wow... by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: 3, Funny
    The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."
    Outlook with no slowdown!
    1. Re:Wow... by FenwayFrank · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's so fast, the blue screen shifts to red!

  2. Hmm by LaserLyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    > ...capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second.

    Hmm...I wonder if I could borrow it for a few days to give my dnet stats a boost :D

  3. Shamelessly plagerized by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, 50 trillion calculations per second. Thats almost fast enough to finish an infinite loop in under ten hours.

  4. Doom III by MrRuslan · · Score: 4, Funny

    at an Impresive 67fps on this baby...