Franklin Cray XT4
Franklin Status: UP
Franklin, named in honor of Benjamin Franklin, is a Cray XT4 massively parallel processing system with 38,128 Opteron compute cores and a peak performance of 352 TFlops/sec.
Computing Enables New Insights into Generating Power Like the Sun
June 7, 2010
| Tags: Fusion Energy
If humans could harness nuclear fusion, the process that powers stars like our sun, the world could have an inexhaustible energy source. But researchers still do not understand the behavior of plasmas well enough to effectively confine them to generate a sustainable flow of energy. NERSC simulations show that that instabilities at the plasma edge can can cause multiple pulses of instability, which damage plasma containment chambers. Read More »
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