• Upgrading A Supercomputer

    November 19th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    What’s it like to perform a processor upgrade on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers? In this video, Al Enger from Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which holds the number three spot in the new Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Enger is upgrading Kraken’s quad-core AMD Opteron chips to Opterons with six cores. This video runs about 4 minutes.

    For more coverage of information about supercomputing, check out our High Performance Computing Channel. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.

Paula Lindsey

Posted November 19th, 2009

The Cray Site Engineer in the video is Al Enger, not Al Linger as depicted.

Rich Miller

Posted November 19th, 2009

Hi Paula. Thanks for the correction. I’ve corrected Al’s last name in the story and excerpt got the RSS feed. The video is from AMD, so they’ll need to fix that on their end.

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