US ORNL Cray XT3(Jaguar) surpasses 50 teraflops

"ORNL Jaguar supercomputer surpasses 50 teraflops", Aug. 25, 2006
　http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr20060825-00
　"An upgrade to the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has increased
　 the system's computing power to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second,
　 making the Cray among the most powerful open scientific systems in the world."
　"The upgrade involved replacing all 5,212 processors with Cray's latest dual-core processors,
　 doubling the memory and adding additional interconnect cables to double the bisection bandwidth.
　 The Jaguar now features more than 10,400 processing cores and 21 terabytes of memory.
　 The upgraded Cray XT3 has passed ORNL's acceptance tests."

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, High Performance Computing
　http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/high_performance_computing.shtml
The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
　http://nccs.gov/
　Jaguar
　　http://info.nccs.gov/resources/jaguar
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