The University of Tennessee spends 65 million dollar for a new supercomputer with nearly 1 petaflops. It will be the fastest supercomputer cluster of the world!

http://www.tennessee.edu/system/news/nsf/?utm_source=utk-image&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=nsf

The new supercomputer system will be built and deployed in partnership with Cray and AMD, and it will be capable of nearly 1,000 trillion calculations a second (1 petaflops) and will give researchers the tools they need to conduct transformational research in a variety of fields.

Some examples of how the new system is expected to be put to use:

* Astrophysicists will move toward realistic simulations of supernova formation, galaxy evolution, and black hole mergers.
* Climate scientists will get a boost in their efforts to predict extreme weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes as well as long-term climate change and the effects of pollution.
* Earth scientists will be able to perform high-resolution simulations of the earth\'s interior and enhance our understanding of the planet\'s evolution.
* Materials scientists will be better able to design materials with useful properties.

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Here\'s an active link to the page:

http://www.tennessee.edu/system/news/nsf/?utm_source=utk-image&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=nsf

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Cpdn news

My university in the USA got a super computer. IBM calls it \"cluster computing\".

http://www.ist.ucf.edu/hpc/main_page.html

What kind of RAC would I have with 48 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5450 working for CPDN?!? :)

My university in the USA got a super computer. IBM calls it "cluster computing".

http://www.ist.ucf.edu/hpc/main_page.html

What kind of RAC would I have with 48 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5450 working for CPDN?!? :)

Interesting question.....my guess would be around 130000 - 160000. But that all depends on the system and OS.

Neil.

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