[June 19, 2012] United States : United States Regains Lead with World s Fastest Supercomputer [TendersInfo (India)] Tweet (TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that a supercomputer called Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California, received the rank of the world s most powerful computing system. The Top500 list, which annually ranks the world s fastest supercomputers, released its list at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany on Monday, June 18. Supercomputers at three other Department of Energy national laboratories ranked in the top 20: Mira at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois, ranked third; Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ranked sixth; and Cielo, jointly operated by Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, ranked fifteenth. Today s announcement puts the United States firmly on the forefront of developing computing systems that will advance the world in many far-reaching ways, while driving high-quality jobs and economic prosperity here at home, said Secretary Chu. I congratulate the national laboratories in their rankings of the world s fastest supercomputers and for paving the way for the technologies of the future. Supercomputers in the United States enable scientists at national laboratories, universities and industry to tackle a wide range of scientific challenges, including studying protein folding to improve disease treatment and prevention; modeling climate change to improve the accuracy of scientific predictions; and developing future energy sources and simulating combustion chemistry to design cleaner, more efficient energy systems. The nation that leads the world in high-performance computing will have an enormous competitive advantage across a broad range of sectors, including national defense, medicine, energy, environment, finance, manufacturing and product development. This marks the United States return to the top spot after a gap of two and a half years. (c) 2012 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]