Kestrel Supercomputer: Why Improved Speed Matters (Text Version)

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[Text on screen: Kestrel Supercomputer: Why It Matters]

[Text on screen: Kestrel can run 44 million-billion calculations per second. That’s 44 petaflops!]

>>Surendra Sunkari, Kestrel Technical Lead: The computing needs have been growing over the past decade, and in order to offset that, we got our next high-performance computing system, which is five times the computing power of the existing system to accommodate all of these projects that we have here at NREL.

[Text on screen: Follow the Countdown to Kestrel: nrel.gov/hpc/kestrel-computing-system.html]