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SALT LAKE CITY -- Linux NetworX announced today it has delivered an Evolocity II (E2) Linux cluster to Argonne National Laboratory that is capable of performing more than one trillion calculations per second (1 teraFLOP). The cluster, named "Jazz" by Argonne, is designed to provide optimum performance for multiple disciplines such as chemistry, physics and reactor engineering and will be used by the entire scientific community at the Lab. The cluster ranks among the fastest in the world, and is the first supercomputer to provide a sustained teraFLOP to Argonne. "The Jazz cluster designed and built by Linux NetworX is both highly reliable and extremely configurable, which is essential since every division at Argonne will be using this system," said Remy Evard, director of the Laboratory Computing Resource Center at Argonne National Laboratory. "We selected Linux NetworX because they offered the ideal hardware configuration, unparalleled expertise in Linux clusters and the respect of our industry peers." "This new computer will enable the rapid development of computational science at the laboratory," said Hermann Grunder, director of Argonne National Laboratory. "The flexibility and power of Jazz will open up new opportunities for discovery in many fields." The Linux NetworX cluster will be part of the Laboratory Computing Resource Center at Argonne and is designed for multiple application domains including genomic sequencing analysis, turbulence modeling, molecular electronic structure and climate simulation. In order to facilitate multiple uses, the cluster has two separate disk arrays, offering 10 terabytes of disk space for parallel I/O, and 10 terabytes of disk space for programs and permanent data. Each node utilizes the Linux NetworX E2 node design, LinuxBIOS and ICE(TM) cluster management tools. "The production cluster built for Argonne National Laboratory demonstrates the performance and flexibility of Linux NetworX clusters," said Stephen Hill, president of Linux NetworX. "This is another teraFLOP system for Linux NetworX, showing our commitment to leading Linux clusters into the next era of supercomputing."