Seaborg at NERSC operationalBerkeley 08 October 2001 The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has opened its newest supercomputer - a 3,328-processor IBM RS/6000 SP system - to more than 2,000 researchers at national laboratories and universities across the country. The IBM SP, named "Seaborg" in honor of Berkeley Lab Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg, is capable of performing five trillion calculations per second (5 teraflop/s).
The supercomputer is located in Berkeley Lab's new Oakland Scientific Facility
in downtown Oakland. The new IBM SP boasts the computing power of more than one
million desktop PCs, all able to work together to tackle some of the world's
toughest scientific problems.
After thorough testing to ensure it met the rigorous demands of 24-by-7
operation, NERSC's IBM SP was opened to DOE's research community in late August.
Soon afterward, scientists around the country began using its power to make
important gains in studying complex problems.
"Serving up a lot of computing horsepower is only part of the computational
science equation," said Horst Simon, director of the NERSC Division at Berkeley
Lab. "The real measure of our success as a supercomputing center is the level of
science our research community is able to achieve using our resources. We're
very excited by the results already being reported and are looking forward to
even greater accomplishments."
Early users of the IBM supercomputer have already reported already
important scientific results in astrophysics, climate research and materials
science
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