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Jaguar, World's Most Powerful Supercomputer

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the minimum-requirements-for-crysis dept.

Protoclown writes "The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), located at Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) in Tennessee, has upgraded the Jaguar supercomputer to 1.64-petaflops for use by scientists and engineers working in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion. The current upgrade is the result of an addition of 200 cabinets of the Cray XT5 to the existing 84 cabinets of the XT4 Jaguar system. Jaguar is now the world's most powerful supercomputer available for open scientific research."

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  1. Don't buy it by CRCulver · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, Jaguar might look cool with its advanced capabilities, but there's no games for it and the controller design is lame.

  2. Kudos to Atari by rgo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always knew you could pull it off!!

    1. Re:Kudos to Atari by ari+wins · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dude, Altered Beast on this thing is SICK!

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  3. Re:Economics? by thedonger · · Score: 2, Funny

    how do you explain the mess the world is in?

    Pre-marital sex?

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  4. Re:Please no climate modelling! by leathered · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do climate modelling?

    Obviously climate modelling has to be carried to out to find out what impact running energy-hungry supercomputers has on the environment.

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  5. Re:Silly Me by colmore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hahah, eat it, 3DO.

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  6. Re:translation???? by The+Master+Control+P · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, shit, astronomical fail!

    It's not nearly that bad... more like 3 days. I failed to realize that my 270000 figure was seconds not years.

  7. SETI by madcat2c · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is a lot of SETI@home power!