Arctic gets 128-CPU super Cray

The unit will have 128 processors and manage an astounding 1.64 trillion calculations a second.

The unit will come with maintenance thrown in and Cray will have use of the machine for the first two years as part of the deal.

The Cray X1 will be installed in the second and third quarters at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

It will be used for climate forecasting, to study the relationship between ocean, ice, atmosphere and terra firm, models of tsunamis, air temperature trends and ionospheric plasma physics.

There's more on the work that ARSC does here, including some interesting stuff on its body language user interface, here. µ