Supercomputing at ORNL
The primary CCSD machine is Jaguar.
Jaguar is a Cray XT4 system. It is provided as a primary system in the Leadership Computing Facility (LCF). Jaguar has a total of 7,832 XT4 compute nodes in addition to input/output (I/O) and login service nodes. Each compute node contains a quad-core 2.1 GHz AMD Opteron processor and 8GB of memory. Aggregate system performance is approximately 263 TF. Approximately 600 TB are available in the scratch filesystems. The service nodes consist of a 2.6 GHz dual-core AMD Opteron processor with 8 GB of memory.


Michael E. Bartell, chief information officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington, D.C., has been named chief information officer (CIO) for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (
Arthur Bernard Maccabe will direct the Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (