Ranger Row

The “Ranger” supercomputer, is the first of a new generation of supercomputers that will help bring petascale computing to the research world. For comparison, most home computers are on the gigabyte scale – petascale is a million times greater.  Ranger is scheduled to be in full production at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in January 2008.  It will provide cutting-edge capability reaching 504 teraflops peak performance and 125 terabytes memory to researchers across the country, enabling new advances across the range of science and engineering fields.

Credit: TACC, The University of Texas at Austin www.tacc.utexas.edu