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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has created a machine capable of doing the unthinkable. In fact, it’s capabilities not only sound impossible, they sound fictional. By combining traditional CPUs with graphical processing units (GPUs), the Titan Supercomputer capable of spitting out 20 petaflops, making it 10 times more powerful than ORNL’s previous Jaguar supercomputer. For the uninitiated, a petaflop, says Buddy...

VANCOUVER, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Nexterra Systems Corp. (www.nexterra.ca), the US Department of Energy and Johnson Controls Inc. recently celebrated the Grand Opening and dedication of the biomass gasification energy plant at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After a rigorous and comprehensive testing program which included a 30 day endurance trial, third party emissions tests and an exhaustive readiness review, the...

Cray Computer was awarded a $97 million contract by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The contract will upgrade the lab’s current Cray XT5 computer, dubbed Jaguar, which runs at 2.3 million billion calculations per second (petaflops) into a new Cray XK6 with a peak calculation speed between 10 and 20 petaflops. According to the news release, the new system, dubbed as Titan, will contain the latest AMD Opteron central processing units and NVIDIA Tesla...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. recently introduced the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), an integrated set of supercomputing, visualization, and data interaction technologies that will enhance agency capabilities in weather and climate prediction research."The NASA Center for Climate Simulation has been designed to meet the unique computational needs of the climate modeling community supported by NASA's Earth Science Division," said Phil Webster, chief...

GREENBELT, Md., June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. recently introduced the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), an integrated set of supercomputing, visualization, and data interaction technologies that will enhance agency capabilities in weather and climate prediction research. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "The NASA Center for Climate...

High-performance computers support major research; push limits of computing powerEast Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings released today.The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers places University of Tennessee supercomputer Kraken in third place, where it also holds the title of world's fastest academic supercomputer, while Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar computer took first place overall.Kraken, the result of a $65...

For the first time, climate scientists from across the country have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model forecasts about global warming.The results of the experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research are published in the current issue of Biogeosciences. They...

Research Team Shatters Two-Second Barrier, Named Finalists for Gordon Bell Prize at SC08A team led by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has successfully completed record-setting, petascale-level simulations of the earth's inner structure, paving the way for seismologists to model seismic wave propagations at frequencies of just over one second "“ the same frequencies that occur in nature.Results of these latest seismic wave simulations were announced at SC08,...

The Department of Energy boosts the world's fastest supercomputer for science, according to an annual ranking that will be released Tuesday at an international supercomputing conference in Austin.The Cray XT high-performance computing system, called Jaguar, was developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It has a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops per second, incorporating a 1.382 petaflops XT5 and a 266 teraflops XT4 systems. "This accomplishment is the culmination of our vision to...

If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second, it would take 650 years to do what the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could do in one day.Nicknamed "Jaguar" by scientist, this $100 million computer is the world's fastest computer for unclassified scientific research.  This computer performs 1 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, making it 55,000 times faster than your typical PC.The only supercomputer faster is devoted...