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TeraGrid Gets an Upgrade

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the we-need-more-flops dept.

The Fun Guy writes to tell us The NSF has awarded $48 million to the University of Chicago to operate and expand TeraGrid over the next five years. TeraGrid is 'a national-scale system of interconnected computers that scientists and engineers are using to solve some of their most challenging problems. TeraGrid is the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system. Only the U.S. Department of Energy's weapons laboratories have larger systems, which are dedicated to classified research.' Currently, the TeraGrid's power is just over 60 teraflops.

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  1. How does this... by Odin_Tiger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...stack against the likes of distributed.net and other similar projects for processing power?

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  2. Every time I run a 500 proc batch job ... by Salis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it makes me smile.

    It's just so ... cool.

    (And the only people who I say that to are my research group members and ... the people of Slashdot!)

    The TeraGrid is well managed too.. very few problems for such a huge system.

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