"Ranger" supercomputer gets processor boost

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 9:51am

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has announced that "Ranger," its world-class Sun supercomputer, has been upgraded with new Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processors.

TACC now offers the national open science community a computing resource with a peak performance rating of 579.4 teraflops.

The "Ranger" supercomputer lives at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of [...]



 

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