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Comments: 1 +-   Half-petaflop supercomputer deployed in Austin-> on Saturday February 23 2008, @01:08PM SethJohnson

Submitted by SethJohnson on Saturday February 23 2008, @01:08PM
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SethJohnson writes "Thanks to a $59 million National Science Foundation grant, there's likely to be a new king of the High Performance Computing Top 500 list. The contender is Ranger, a 15,744 Quad-Core AMD Opteron behemoth built by Sun and hosted at the University of Texas. It's peak 504 teraflops processing power will be shared among over 500 researchers working across the even larger TeraGrid system. Although its expected lifespan is just four years, Ranger will provide 500 million processor hours to projects attempting to address societal grand challenges such as global climate change, water resource management, new energy sources, natural disasters, new materials and manufacturing processes, tissue and organ engineering, patient-specific medical therapies, and drug design."
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Some people have a way about them that seems to say: "If I have only one life to live, let me live it as a jerk."

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