{"id":45312,"date":"2009-11-19T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=18470"},"modified":"2009-11-19T08:15:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:15:56","slug":"upgrading-a-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45312","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading A Supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s it like to perform a processor upgrade on one of the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers?\u00a0In this video, Al Enger from Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nics.tennessee.edu\/computing-resources\/kraken\">Kraken<\/a> supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which\u00a0holds the number three spot in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top500.org\/lists\/2009\/11\">Top 500<\/a> list of the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers. Enger is upgrading Kraken&#8217;s quad-core AMD Opteron chips to Opterons with six cores. This video runs about 4 minutes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ehCgG9yZQmg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ehCgG9yZQmg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For more coverage of information about supercomputing, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/category\/hpc\/\">High Performance Computing Channel<\/a>. For additional video, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/data_center_videos-index.html\">DCK video archive<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DataCenterVideos\">Data Center Videos<\/a> channel on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?ak_action=api_record_view&#038;id=18470&#038;type=feed\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s it like to perform a processor upgrade on one of the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers?\u00a0In this video, Al Enger from Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which\u00a0holds the number three spot in the new Top 500 list of the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}