Kraken set to deliver two billionth CPU hour, sustains 96 percent utilization

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 12:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Kraken, the world's fastest academic supercomputer, is adding some impressive credentials to its resume. Not only will the Cray XT5 deliver its 2 billionth CPU hour to open science during the week of the SC11 Conference, the computer also sustained an astonishing utilization of 96 percent for the month of October, running with no downtime for 36 days consecutively.

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