Argonne's Supercomputer Named World's Fastest for Open Science, Third Overall
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 13:28
in Mathematics & Economics
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual Top500 List of the world's fastest computers. The Blue Gene/P - known as Intrepid and located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility - also ranked third fastest overall.