Marcin Wichary / flickr The fastest computer in the world -- the Cray XT5 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- is powered by more than 37 thousand processors from Advanced Micro Devices.
Known as "Jaguar", the supercomputer contains about 37,376 AMD processors and is built using AMD six-core Istanbul Opteron chips running at 2.6 gigahertz.
That type of horsepower allows Jaguar to make a world-best 1,759 trillion calculations per second.
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TACC, McCombs receive gifts from Chevron
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin today received gifts totaling $230,000 from Chevron Corporation to train the...
Chevron announces technology training gifts to UT
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