Monday, December 8, 2008

Jaguar - 8th of TOP500 Super computers (Rank 8 - November 2008)

• “The jaguar system at ORNL provides immense computing power in a balanced, stable system that is allowing scientists and engineers to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems”

(By - 2008, Kelvin Drogemeier, Meteorology Professor, University of Oklahoma)


• “Jaguar is one of science’s newest and most formidable tools for advancement in science and engineering”

(Raymond Orbach, the DOE’s under secretary for science)


• "The XT3 is a remarkable system for scientific calculations, and the upgrade of all system components maintains the balance of the machine while doubling the performance"

(ORNL's Thomas Zacharia, associate laboratory director)


• Site Name – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Segment – Research

• City – Oak Ridge

• State – Tennessee

• Country – United States

• Processor Family - AMD x86_64

• Processor - AMD x86_64 Opteron Quad Core

• No of processors - more than 45,000

• Memory - 362 TB

• File system - 10-PB

• Memory bandwidth - 578 TB per second

• Input/output bandwidth - 284 GB per second


World’s most powerful computer for Science!


(Source: http://www.ornl.gov)

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