Faster Supercomputer available to researchers.

• Author: Foster, Sharon
• Position: Tech Talk

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., has made its newest supercomputer--a 3,328-processor IBM RS/6000 SP system--accessible to more than 2,000 researchers at national laboratories and universities across the country.

The IBM SP is capable of performing five trillion calculations per second. It is the world's largest supercomputer dedicated to unclassified research.

"Scientists who are researching global climate change, exploring how to cut pollution from internal combustion engines, designing power sources for the future and finding new ways to treat disease have a much more powerful tool at their...