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US Aims for Fastest Supercomputer Title

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The United States has set its sights on becoming the country with the fastest supercomputer. The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) announced it has been chosen to lead a partnership with the goal of building the most powerful supercomputer by 2007. The Department of Energy awarded the lab a US$25 million contract for the effort.

Development will be done by combining partnerships, researchers, new buildings and equipment. The blend of these different components is referred to as the National Leadership Computing Facility (NLCF). The five-year plan will pool computational resources for a sustained capacity of 50 teraflops (50 trillion calculations per second), with a peak capacity of more than 250 teraflops.
ORNL expects to reach the 45-teraflop mark by late this year or early 2005, according to Thomas Zacharia, ORNL associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences. He told the E-Commerce Times that the plan also includes hitting the 100-teraflop level in 2006.

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