KRAKEN Supercomputer, ORNL


Kraken was a Cray XT5 supercomputer that entered into full production mode on February 2, 2009. Kraken was operated by the University of Tennessee and was the most powerful computer in the world managed by academia at the time. It was housed in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing facility at Oak Ridge National laboratory. Kraken was decommissioned on April 30, 2014. No photographer credited, dated 2009.


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