The world’s fastest academic supercomputer is now up and running. Kraken, a Cray XT5 system located at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), managed by the University of Tennessee (UT) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), promises to push the limits of simulation science.
NICS, in conjunction with the DOE-supported NCCS, sponsored a workshop April 13-16, which covered important issues for obtaining increased performance on the new Cray XT5 systems installed by both programs. These powerful supercomputer systems have features which must be well understood by developers and users to enable large applications to scale to higher number of processors and achieve sustained higher performance.
For details about the Workshop:
2008 Cray Workshop Home Page.
NICS has taken delivery of a new Cray XT5. The new machine, which replaces the Cray XT4, will be called by the same name, 'Kraken'. The new Kraken XT5 will be available starting Monday February 2. Over the next two months, until March 30, both machines will be available to facilitate the transition from the XT4 to the XT5.
