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"Over 2 Billion Served"

Celebrating "Two Billion Hours Served" by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility are (from left to right) ALCF Director Pete Beckman, Director of Science Paul Messina and Manager of User Support and Outreach David Martin.

 

The staff of ALCF, the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences recently celebrated the ALCF's surpassing two billion processor-hours of computations at a mind-boggling speed of more than 557 trillion calculations per second. The project that clicked the supercomputer Intrepid over its 2 billionth hour of science was "Uncertainty Quantification for Turbulent Mixing," a simulation of the turbulent mixing of two fluids, conducted by a group from Stony Brook University, New York.

 

Details are available on the ALCF Web site »

 

Argonne National Laboratory.

 

 

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Uploaded on June 17, 2010
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