Facilities
The GFDL is located at Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Princeton, NJ.
Since March 2011, the GFDL no longer possesses an on-site supercomputer. They instead utilize a massively parallel Cray supercomputer with over 30,000 processor cores which is currently located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This contrasts from their previous systems architecture, which consisted of eight Silicon Graphics Altix computers, each housing 1024 processor cores. Hardware updates occur on average, every 18 months.
The GFDL has been utilizing High Performance Computing Systems for Numerical Modeling since the 1950s.
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