Cray and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced today that Cray has won the contract to install a next-generation supercomputer at the DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The systems and multi-year services contract, valued at over $52 million, includes delivery of a Cray massively parallel processor supercomputer, code-named “Hood.”
Hood is comprised of thousands of Opteron processors, running on finely tuned kernels. I have to wonder just how awesome it would be to play around with such a beast. 1,000 instances of Super Pi anyone?