The Austin American-Statesman features the Ranger in an article describing how Austin has begun claiming a bigger piece of the supercomputing action. The Ranger is the most powerful general purpose supercomputer in the world, funded by the U.S. Government's National Science Foundation, and developed by Sun in conjunction with the Texas Advanced Computer Center.

TACC, Sun and AMD collaborated with the Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, Arizona State University and Cornell University in the application development, deployment, management and training strategies around the infrastructure.

At the heart of Ranger is the Sun Constellation System - a combination of ground-breaking compute, storage and networking components from Sun. The American-Statesman article is accompanied by an interactive graphic illustrating how you get from the AMD Barcelona processor to a 3936 node cluster. Peaking at 504 TeraFLOPS, Ranger is a huge step in the drive toward Petascale Computing.

Tags : HPC Petascale TACC