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."

Comments

Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

[HarveyBirdman]

Since it's funded by federal grants, how much time, as a taxpayer, do I get on it?

And I'm still waiting for my turn to drive one of the Mars rovers.

Slashdot Stock Effect

[imsirovic5]

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