The Kraken (CrayXT5) computer at the University of Tennessee has become the first academic computer to hit the petascale milestone, meaning it can perform 1,000 Trillion operations per second, and has a memory equivalent to storage of 10 million telephone directories. The university's release is here. UT earlier announced it's creating a center for remote data analysis and visualization, funded by an NSF grant.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Kraken now petascale
The Kraken (CrayXT5) computer at the University of Tennessee has become the first academic computer to hit the petascale milestone, meaning it can perform 1,000 Trillion operations per second, and has a memory equivalent to storage of 10 million telephone directories. The university's release is here. UT earlier announced it's creating a center for remote data analysis and visualization, funded by an NSF grant.
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