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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. Yeah, the supercomputing stuff is nice and all... by Gizzmonic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But I really got it to play Tempest 2000.

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  2. Re:Please no climate modelling! by thedonger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would say more than lack of evidence is lack of causation rather than correlation. Scientists appear to agree that at least in the short term the earth is a little warmer. What they can't say with any certainty is why. Anthropogenic warming is the desired cause as that is the only one we can do a damn thing about.

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  3. Re:good upgrade path by bmwm3nut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then when you get new cabinets you just decommission the oldest ones. Keep rotating the old ones out once they fall below some flop/dollar threshold.