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Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab

Teraflopping all over the place…

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By Daniel Terdiman

Published: 14 July 2008 12:00 GMT


This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined during World War II.

Pictured here is one row of the lab's Cray X1E, the largest vector supercomputer in the world. It is rated for 18 teraflops of processing power. The computer is liquid-cooled, and piping was installed into the floor for that purpose.

Photo credit: Daniel Terdiman


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