The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) provides the most powerful computing resources in the world for open scientific research. It is one of the world’s premier science facilities—an unparalled research environment that supports dramatic advances in understanding how the physical world works and using that knowledge to address our most pressing national and international concerns. The NCCS was founded in 1992 to advance the state of the art in high-performance computing by puttin ...
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has completed acceptance of an upgrade to its Cray XT4™ system, taking the highly scalable supercomputer from 119 teraflops (one trillion floating point operations per second) to more than 260 teraflops. Already one of the world’s largest high-performance computing (HPC) systems, [...] ...