For years, technology developed to meet the computing requirements of Sandia, Oak Ridge, and other national laboratories has pushed the high-performance computing (HPC) envelope and spurred innovation in a broad range of scientific research areas. In fact, over the years much of the technology developed for the labs has been rapidly incorporated into commercial systems used to advance life science research. Keeping that tradition alive, Sandia and Oak Ridge this month launched the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, a joint initiative for the development of a next-generation HPC system dubbed an exascale computer.
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