
Titan upgrade underway
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded a contract to Cray Inc. to increase the Jaguar supercomputer's science impact and energy efficiency. The upgrade will transform the DOE Office of Science-supported Cray XT5 system, currently capable of 2.3 million billion calculations per second (petaflops), into a Cray XK6 system with a peak speed between 10 and 20 petaflops. (more)


Robert Harrison has been appointed director of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, reporting to Computing and Computational Sciences Associate Laboratory Director Jeff Nichols.