Jaguar to be upgraded at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

摘要

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is to upgrade its Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer. The upgrade to six-core AMD Opteron processors, code-named Istanbul, will increase Jaguar's peak performance to more than two petaflops.rnThe contract to upgrade the Jaguar system will increase the number of the Cray XT5 supercomputer's processing cores to more than 224,000. The upgrade is expected to be installed and accepted by the end of 2009.