Next-Generation Supercomputer Delivered to NERSC

The first phase of the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing center's (NERSC) next-generation supercomputer was delivered to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Oakland Science Facility this month. NERSC awarded the contract for this system to Cray Inc. in August 2009.

 

The system that was delivered is a Cray XT5™ massively parallel processor supercomputer, which will be upgraded to a future-generation Cray supercomputer. When completed, the new system will deliver a peak performance of more than one petaflops, equivalent to more than one quadrillion calculations per second. This machine is named Hopper, after rear admiral Grace Murray Hopper who was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer.

 

NERSC Center currently serves thousands of scientists at national laboratories and universities across the country researching problems in climate modeling, computational biology, environmental sciences, combustion, materials science, chemistry, geosciences, fusion energy, astrophysics, and other disciplines. NERSC is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under contract with DOE.

 

For more information about the system and the contract, please visit: www.lbl.gov/cs/Archive/news080509.html

 

For more information about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab, please visit: www.lbl.gov/cs

 

For more information about Science at NERSC, please visit: www.nersc.gov/projects

 

credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer

 

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