Ever since it debuted in 2005 with a capability of (what now seems modest) 26 teraflops, the Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been something special among the world's top supercomputers. For the past year, it has been rated the second fastest computer on the planet.
Now, after a series of upgrades and additions, Jaguar is unquestionably No. 1. That was made official today with the release of the Top500 rankings.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
