Today's post features the Cray XT5 supercomputer, 'Kraken'.  Kraken Becomes First Academic Machine To Achieve Petaflop

ScienceDaily (2009-10-13) -- The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer was just upgraded to a peak performance exceeding one petaflop, making it the fastest system in the country managed by an academic institution and placing it among the five fastest systems in the world. ... > read full article