UT J.J. Pickle Research Campus

Ranger is being used by more than
4000 researchers accross the nation.

DSG has the privilege of protecting Ranger (currently the most powerful computer in the world), using GE, EST, and Vesda components. Ranger is located in the Texas Advanced Computing Center on the J.J. Pickle Research campus of The University of Texas.

The $59 million supercomputer is expected to run at up to 504 trillion operations per second, making it one of the most powerful in the world.

The machine, based on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. and 15,000 processor chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., is expected to be put to work on such complex computing problems as earthquake prediction and simulation, climate modeling, advanced weather forecasting, molecular science simulations, nanotechnology and astrophysics.

"Ranger will enable computations science research that has been heretofore impossible, and it will provide opportunities in computer science and technology that are groundbreaking," said Juan Sanchez, vice president for research at UT.

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