U.S. DOE now computes faster than anyone with Jaguar

William Atkins
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 22:35

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The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Monday, November 10, 2008 that its newly updated Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer is the fastest “open science” computer in the world. It now purrs along at 1.64 petaflops, what correlates to 1.64 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second.




The Energy Department’s article “DOE’s Oak Ridge Supercomputer Now World’s Fastest for Open Science” states that its latest upgrade to its Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer has made it “the world’s first petaflop system dedicated to open research."

The Jaguar is definitely the cat’s meow of the computer world!

Open science (and the corresponding open research) means that the computing facilities are open and assessable to any valid research project that may need the super fast computing capabilities of the Jaguar.

The DOE has already stated that demand for its new “world’s fastest” computer is quite brisk.

The Cray XT Jaguar is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
 
This computer is manufactured by Cray, Inc., a supercomputer company based in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. The company was founded in 1972 by U.S. computer designer Seymour Cray—under the name Cray Research, Inc.

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