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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. Economics? by thedonger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How about economic modeling?

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    1. Re:Economics? by Draek · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Scientists are always so sure they are right. And then a few decades pass and they realize they weren't. And then they repeat that same behavior.

      Not really. Most scientists know they're always wrong, they just try to be less wrong each time. Hence the scientific method.

      There's a brilliant article by Asimov about it, in fact, "The Relativity of Wrong" if you care about it.

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