Kraken (IMAGE)

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Kraken

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The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer, pictured here, has been announced as the world's third most powerful computer overall, and is also the world's most powerful academic computer. It was built as part of a $65 million National Science Foundation grant, and is managed by UT's National Institute for Computational Science.

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University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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