U.S. Supercomputer Gets Speedier

(From The Associated Press -- By Duncan Mansfield)

The most powerful supercomputer available for general scientific research in the United States has DOUBLED its speed, officials said Friday.

The 54-cabinet CRAY XT3 SUPERCOMPUTER at Tennessee's OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY has been upgraded from 25 teraflops to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second, they said.
[Wow, that's a lot of math.]

"It is probably the fifth-fastest machine" in the world, said THOMAS ZACHARIA, Associate Laboratory Director.

"It is clearly the fastest open science machine in the
U.S. today."

U.S. Supercomputer Gets Speedier

Scott O'Leary, thanks for the post.

[Hmmm, but how fast can it render BORIS DEINTERLACE?]