Oak Ridge Lab Supercomputer Doubles Performance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday August 26, 2006 @02:33AM from the big-iron dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The most powerful supercomputer available for general scientific research in the United States has undergone an upgrade that's doubled its peak performance. The Cray XT3 supercomputer at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can now perform up to 54 trillion calculations per second, up from its previous peak of 25 trillion calculations. 'It is probably the fifth-fastest machine' in the world, said Thomas Zacharia, associate laboratory director. 'It is clearly the fastest open-science machine in the U.S. today.'"

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Re:Awesome by beamdriver · 2006-08-26 03:43 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually, we encourage people to visit us. Either during the summer or any time they want to schedule a tour.
Of course, there's no major weapons work going on at BNL. At least, none that I know of.