Tag archive for ‘Kraken’
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Supercomputer Research Helps Understand Planet-forming Gases
Many newly formed stars are surrounded by what are called protoplanetary disks, swirling masses of warm dust and gas that may potentially become celestial bodies such as planets and asteroids.... -
Supercomputer Research Investigates Roles of Proteins in Disease
Proteins can play either pernicious or positive roles in the dynamics of disease. Some proteins that anchor to cell membranes promote the development of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), while some... -
New York Times: A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
UT and its supercomputer, Kraken, were mentioned in the New York Times profiling high school-aged scientists competing in the nationwide Intel Science Talent Search. One of the teens was 17-year-old... -
UT Faculty Research Why Drugs Work on Some and Not Others
Two UT biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology faculty members may have uncovered why some people respond to drugs differently. Jerome Baudry and Yinglong Miao, joint faculty at Oak Ridge National... -
UT Supercomputers to Gain More Power Thanks to NSF Grants
UT Knoxville's supercomputing capabilities are about to become more powerful. The UT-managed National Institute for Computational Sciences is adding 300 teraflops to the TeraGrid's total computational capability thanks to two... -
UT’s Kraken Named World’s Third Most Powerful Computer, ORNL’s Jaguar No. 1
East Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings released today. The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers places UT supercomputer... -
UT’s Kraken Supercomputer First Academic Computer to Break Petascale
UT's supercomputer, Kraken, has broken a major barrier to become the world's first academic supercomputer to enter the petascale, performing more than 1 thousand trillion operations per second, a landmark...
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