Faster Supercomputer available to researchers. (Tech Talk).The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, or NERSC for short, is a designated user facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. , operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. in Berkeley, Calif., has made its newest supercomputer--a 3,328-processor IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RS/6000 SP system--accessible to more than 2,000 researchers at national laboratories and universities across the country. The IBM SP is capable of performing five trillion calculations per second. It is the world's largest supercomputer dedicated to unclassified un·clas·si·fied adj. 1. Not placed or included in a class or category: unclassified mail. 2. research. "Scientists who are researching global climate change, exploring how to cut pollution from internal combustion engines, designing power sources for the future and finding new ways to treat disease have a much more powerful tool at their disposal." "Until now, this level of computing power simply has not been available to support research across a broad range of computational science," said Berkeley Lab Director Charles Shank shank (shangk) 1. leg (1). 2. crus ( 2). shank n. The part of the human leg between the knee and ankle. . The supercomputer--named "Seaborg" for Berkeley Lab Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg--is located in the lab's new Oakland Scientific Facility in downtown Oakland. The new IBM SP boasts the computing power of more than one million desktop PCs, all able to work together to tackle scientific problems. |
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