Kestrel Versus Eagle Supercomputer Stack-Up
Compare NREL's latest high-performance computing system—Kestrel—with its predecessor—Eagle—and see how its advanced supercomputer capabilities stack-up to real-world examples.
Peak Performance
Side by side on the subway tracks, Kestrel will travel 5.5 times faster than Eagle.
Random Access Memory
Kestrel can quickly recall the details of every bus route in the United States.
High-Speed Data Storage
It would take more than 65 miles of end-to-end smartphones to store as much data as Kestrel.
Network Speed
Kestrel's network "highway" has twice as many lanes as Eagle's. Vehicles (or data) travel twice as fast, simultaneously, and—like Kestrel's compute nodes—all communicating with one another at the same time.
Energy-per-Computation
Efficiency
Kestrel can do 2.2 times more calculations per watt of energy than Eagle. That’s like traveling more than twice as far on a single charge.
Computing Speed Unit Definitions
Gigaflop — billion calculations per second
Petabytes — 14 million gigabytes
Petaflop — million-billion calculations per second
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