LLNL receives teraflop Cray for non-destructive testing

17 Jun 2002

The Clinton Administration announced on October 10 that Cray Research, the supercomputing subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc., will provide the world's most powerful supercomputer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. The $110.5 million Department of Energy award is part of a program to develop a reliable substitute for underground nuclear testing.

The final Silicon Graphics-Cray Research system provide an aggregate peak performance of more than three teraflops, or three trillion calculations a second. A second system planned for Los Alamos' Advanced Computing Laboratory will provide an additional teraflop of computing power. When integrated, the combined peak performance of the two systems will be more than four teraflops -- the fastest system in the world.