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News Release 05-124

Pittsburgh Center Unveils a Bigger, Faster Supercomputer Called "Big Ben"

NSF's Bement says the machine is "a significant leap" in research and education capacity

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Big Ben is Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's new high-performance computer.

Big Ben, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Cray XT3, high-performance computer can perform 10 trillion calculations per second.

Credit: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center