These 7 supercomputers are the fastest at U.S. universities
The University of Arizona recently spent part of a $1.3 million grant on a computer upgrade — a new supercomputer ranked 336th on the list of the world's 500 fastest.
The computer, which is housed in three refrigerator-sized cabinets, is dubbed “El Gato.†The name is reportedly an abbreviation — selectively taking letters from the phrase “extremely large advanced technology†system — though it's also likely a nod to the university's wildcat mascot.
Professors at the university say El Gato’s processing power will help conduct research that requires multiple calculations to run at the same time, and it will deliver results with more detail. For example, it has already calculated the location of more than 1 billion dark-matter particles in a simulation of the universe.
Purchased with help from a National Science Foundation grant, the supercomputer is also ranked seventh in the world on the Green500 list of energy-efficient supercomputers. El Gato runs on a 145-teraflops system (one teraflop equals 1 trillion mathematical operations per second) and has 13 times more processing capacity than what was previously the University of Arizona's most powerful computer.
Given Arizona's new bragging rights, how do the supercomputers housed at other U.S. universities stack up? The updated TOP500 supercomputer rankings will be released on June 23rd, but until then, these seven university-owned supercomputers in the U.S. are currently ranked within the list's top 100.
1. Stampede, Texas Advanced Computing Center/University of Texas
This computer has a maximum speed of 5,168 teraflops and is ranked seventh on the latest TOP500 list, in addition to holding the No. 52 spot on Green500's list. The university also has the TOP500's 153rd ranked computer: Lonestar 4, with a top speed of 251 teraflops. Among the research projects utilizing Stampede is the study of graphene, an excellent conductor of electricity and heat that might emerge as a replacement for silicon.
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The University of Arizona recently spent part of a $1.3 million grant on a computer upgrade — a new supercomputer ranked 336th on the list of the world's 500 fastest.
The computer, which is housed in three refrigerator-sized cabinets, is dubbed “El Gato.†The name is reportedly an abbreviation — selectively taking letters from the phrase “extremely large advanced technology†system — though it's also likely a nod to the university's wildcat mascot.
Professors at the university say El Gato’s processing power will help conduct research that requires multiple calculations to run at the same time, and it will deliver results with more detail. For example, it has already calculated the location of more than 1 billion dark-matter particles in a simulation of the universe.
Purchased with help from a National Science Foundation grant, the supercomputer is also ranked seventh in the world on the Green500 list of energy-efficient supercomputers. El Gato runs on a 145-teraflops system (one teraflop equals 1 trillion mathematical operations per second) and has 13 times more processing capacity than what was previously the University of Arizona's most powerful computer.
Given Arizona's new bragging rights, how do the supercomputers housed at other U.S. universities stack up? The updated TOP500 supercomputer rankings will be released on June 23rd, but until then, these seven university-owned supercomputers in the U.S. are currently ranked within the list's top 100.
1. Stampede, Texas Advanced Computing Center/University of Texas
This computer has a maximum speed of 5,168 teraflops and is ranked seventh on the latest TOP500 list, in addition to holding the No. 52 spot on Green500's list. The university also has the TOP500's 153rd ranked computer: Lonestar 4, with a top speed of 251 teraflops. Among the research projects utilizing Stampede is the study of graphene, an excellent conductor of electricity and heat that might emerge as a replacement for silicon.
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