Move by IBM Roadrunner, the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer just outran you.

The office of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has boosted the computing capability on its Cray XT Jaguar to a peak 1.64 petaflops. That makes Jaguar the world’s first petaflop system committed to open research. Scientists have already used the newly upgraded Jaguar to complete an unprecedented superconductivity calculation that achieved a sustained performance of more than 1.3 petaflops.

“Jaguar is one of science’s newest

and most formidable tools for advancement in science and engineering,” said Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, the DOE’s undersecretary for science. “It will enable researchers to simulate physical processes on a scale never seen before, and approach convergence for dynamical processes never thought possible. High-end computation will become the critical third pillar for scientific discovery, along with experiment and theory.”

Jaguar Speed

Oak Ridge said the upgrade marks a major milestone in a […]

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