Lincoln Laboratory's supercomputing system ranked most powerful in New England
The new TX-Green computing system at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) has been named the most powerful supercomputer in New England, 43rd most powerful in the U.S., and 106th most powerful in the world. A team of experts at TOP500 ranks the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers biannually. The systems are ranked based on a LINPACK Benchmark, which is a measure of a system's floating-point computing power, i.e., how fast a computer solves a dense system of linear equations. Established in early 2016, the LLSC was developed to enhance computing power and accessibility for more than 1,000 researchers across the laboratory. The LLSC uses interactive supercomputing to augment the processing power of desktop systems to process large sets of sensor data, create high-fidelity simulations, and develop new algorithms. Located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, the new system is the only zero-carbon supercomputer on the TOP500 list; it uses energy from a...