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Energy lab to run petascale computer ~ Oakridge to have Cray with 24,000 2.6 Ghz quad-core Opteron
GCN ^ | 03/29/06 -- 10:17 AM | Joab Jackson, GCN Staff

Posted on 04/01/2006 8:41:43 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

NEWPORT, R.I.—The Energy Department’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: supercomputing

1 posted on 04/01/2006 8:41:45 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sure, but will it run a simulation of "Star Trek"?


2 posted on 04/01/2006 10:54:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Swordmaker; HAL9000; Panerai
Ping!

3 posted on 04/01/2006 10:56:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Interest level seems low on supercomputer topics....


4 posted on 04/02/2006 9:14:38 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hey, I'm tryin' to sleep here...


5 posted on 04/02/2006 9:24:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
Well, bedtime here so I won't bother you again....nite!
6 posted on 04/02/2006 10:07:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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