The Department of Energy (DOE) is putting 1.3Billion Processor Hours out to the public for simulation and research of several phenomena. The hours are split between the Oak Ridge Cray XT “Jaguar” and Argonne IBM BlueGene/P “Intrepid” systems, and are for unclassified open research.
In 2009, 900 million processor hours were up for grabs (a million processing hours would take 1,000 processors 1,000 hours, or around 41 days), but both computers received huge performance boosts this year. Jaguar’s processor count has shot up from 31,328 to 180,832, while Intrepid now boasts 163,840 from 32,768. Jaguar’s peak performance is now a blistering 1.64 petaflops (a quadrillion and a half floating point operations per second), making it the second most powerful supercomputer on Earth.
While the article talks alot about the science the new machines facilitate, I see nothing about how they intend to perform Analysis or Visualization of this scale of data. An oversight? I know some DOE folks are watching, care to elaborate?
via Record Amount of Supercomputer Time Means New Science | Wired Science.
