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Article: Argonne National Laboratory to Play Major Role in World's Most Powerful Supercomputer; Taps IBM for Engineering, Tech Services, Power-based BlueGene System.
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- May 14, 2004
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Byline: Argonne National Laboratory
ARGONNE, Ill., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will play a major role in the development of a new national computational science facility aimed at deploying a supercomputer capable of sustained performance of 100 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops) by 2007.
Argonne partnered with DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop a proposal for the National Leadership Computing Facility (NLCF), which will engage teams of researchers from national laboratories, research institutions, computing centers, universities and vendors. The NLCF will be ...