NICS

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.