Thursday July 24, 2008 "Ranger" Supercomputer Now Available To Texas Researchers
"Ranger," one of the largest open science computing systems in the world, is now available to researchers at all Texas higher education institutions, according to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Ranger went into full production on Feb. 4. The Sun Constellation system was recently upgraded with even faster AMD Quad-Core OpteronTM processors and now boasts a peak performance of 579.4 trillion calculations per second.
"TACC's mission is to enhance science and society with supercomputing nationwide and globally, and we are committed to ensuring that Texas researchers have opportunities to achieve these goals," Jay Boisseau, TACC director, said. "Through resources like Ranger and Lonestar, and via collaborations with the High Performance Computing Across Texas consortium and the Lonestar Education and Research Network, we are able to provide leading-edge computing technologies and expertise to researchers across the Lone Star state."
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( July 24, 2008 07:16 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
