Oak Ridge signs with Cray to upgrade supercomputer

June 15th, 2006

(AP) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory has signed an agreement with Cray Inc. to upgrade its massive XT3 supercomputer even further to make it the fastest computer in the world for nonmilitary use.

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