{"81431":{"#nid":"81431","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech to Tap Into World\u0027s Largest Supercomputer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech may soon have access to the world\u0027s fastest computer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., will receive $25 million in funding to begin building a supercomputer to surpass the world\u0027s most powerful computer, the Earth Simulator in Japan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen completed, the supercomputer will have the processing power of 50,000 to 100,000 desktop computers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is connected to Oak Ridge\u0027s computers, currently with 10 teraflops (10 trillion calculations per second) of total computing capability, through the Atlanta GigaPOP or Southern Crossroads (SoX). The high-speed connection links 22 Southern universities to each other and Oak Ridge.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech, a partner in the management of the Oak Ridge Lab, will have direct access to the new supercomputer. And with all that power, researchers at Georgia Tech can supercharge their computing efforts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHigh-speed computing has become an increasingly integral part of scientific research in everything from climate analysis to mapping cellular structures to calculating the variables of space travel. This supercomputing prowess allows scientists to crunch gargantuan sets of data to carry out many of the sophisticated simulations that are key to their research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The supercomputer will have great value to our major researchers in areas like nanoscience, atmospheric science and bioinformatics. It will be a huge benefit to the Southeast,\u0022 said Ron Hutchins, associate vice provost for research and technology and chief technology officer at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe planned 50 teraflop (50 trillion calculations per second) supercomputer will be used for science research and available to the scientific community. It will eventually peak at more than 250 teraflops after about five years and have a total cost that is expected to reach between $150 million and $200 million.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOak Ridge\u0027s development partners on the project include Cray Inc., IBM Corp. and Silicone Graphics Inc. Oak Ridge will also work closely with Argonne National Laboratory and other DOE national laboratories and universities. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project is part of the DOE\u0027s push to increase U.S. competitiveness in computing and science.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our priority at Oak Ridge is not just to build the world\u0027s fastest computer, but to make the machine available to universities and laboratories across the country,\u0022 said Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory\u0027s associate lab director for computing and computational sciences. \u0022Georgia Tech is a perfect example of a great university that we anticipate will be a close partner in the years ahead.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech may soon have access to the world\u0027s fastest computer. Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive $25 million in funding to begin building a supercomputer to surpass the world\u0027s most powerful computer, the Earth Simulator in Japan. Georgia Tech, a partner in the management of the Oak Ridge Lab, will have direct access to the new supercomputer.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-05-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"81441":{"id":"81441","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["81441"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Grovenstein - Communications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}