How fast is Jaguar- the new super computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? If every one in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second,it would take 650 years to do what this machine can do in one day.
That makes the $100-million Jaguar the fastest in the world for unclassified scientific research.At more than one quadrillion mathematical calculations per second(or one petaflop),it os about 55,000 times fastest than your typical PC.
Jaguar,a Cray Inc. system,will be used to research global climate change,space matter that can't be seen and alternative energy-everything from improved gasoline combustion to fusion.It is claimed to have achieved sustained performance of more than 1.3 petaflops recently while churning out calculations on superconductivity and has hit a peak speed of 1.64 petaflops.