When you think of Cray super computers, you think of huge vacumn powered CPUs filling up an entire warehouse. With the advent of new technologies in microprocessers and the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory reaching 54
teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second, it is now among the most powerful open scientific systems in the world. Lets just hope this is one step ahead for human kind to solve a lot more of the world's problems.
With the new upgrade, the Cray machined dubbed “The Jaguar” now features more than 10,400 processing cores and a whopping 21 terabytes of memory.
The computer, dubbed Jaguar, is the largest in the Department of Energy's Office of Science and is the major computing resource for DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program. The system is available to all scientific researchers and research organizations, including industry, through an annual call for proposals. Three of the four companies -- Boeing, DreamWorks Animation and General Atomics -- awarded INCITE grants for 2006 are doing their work at ORNL.
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