Argonne leadership computing facility makes it easy to be 'green'

From Deep Blue, the computer that defeated Garry Kasparov in a 1997 chess match, to the new Blue Gene(R) line of high-performance computers created by IBM, a single colour has traditionally been associated with advanced computing. With the recent opening of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, however, high-performance computing has taken on a different hue: green...

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