Indiana University confirmed its leadership in high
performance, data-intensive computing by unveiling Big Red II, a powerful new
supercomputer with a processing speed of one thousand trillion floating-point
operations per second (one petaFLOPS).
Big Red II replaces the original Big Red, installed in 2006.
The new supercomputer, which is 25 times faster than its predecessor, will
enable vital new research to be done and breakthroughs in fields ranging from
medicine and physics to fine arts and global climate research. Additionally, it
is expected to attract and help retain faculty whose work requires advanced
data-processing power.