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Ranger was one of the largest computing systems in the world for open science research.
Ranger was one of the largest computing systems in the world for open science research. As the first of the NSF Track2 high-performance computing acquisitions, the system provided unprecedented computational capabilities to the national research community and ushered in the petascale science era. Ranger operated between 2008 and 2013 and was replaced by the Stampede supercomputer.
Credit: Texas Advanced Computing Center
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