University of Tennessee Lands NSF Supercomputer

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen helped mark the official launch of the latest supercomputing project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a partnership among ORNL, the University of Tennessee and the National Science Foundation.

The NSF has awarded a $65 million grant to the University of Tennessee for construction of a second petascale supercomputer at ORNL. The new computer, dubbed Kraken, will be used to tackle some of science's largest problems. The University of Tennessee team will study the intricacies of climate change, planetary evolution and materials design.

The funding includes $30 million for computer hardware and $35 million for operation of the system over the next five years. The new supercomputer, which will be built by Cray and AMD, will be capable of nearly a thousand trillion calculations per second, or 1 petaflops.

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