Posted on 04/01/2006 8:41:43 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NEWPORT, R.I.The Energy Departments Oak Ridge National Laboratory will start to take delivery on a computer at least as three times more powerful than any now in operation.
The system should be operational by 2008, according to Thomas Zacharia, ORNL associate lab director for computing and computational sciences. Zacharia spoke at the High Performance Computing and Communications Conference this week in Newport, R.I.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcn.com ...
Sure, but will it run a simulation of "Star Trek"?
Interest level seems low on supercomputer topics....
Hey, I'm tryin' to sleep here...
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