<s>
TERA-10	B-Device
is	O
a	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
built	O
by	O
Bull	O
SA	O
for	O
the	O
French	O
Commissariat	O
à	O
l'Énergie	O
Atomique	O
,	O
(	O
Atomic	O
Energy	O
Commission	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TERA-10	B-Device
was	O
ranked	O
142nd	O
on	O
the	O
TOP500	B-Operating_System
list	O
in	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
runs	O
at	O
52.84teraFLOPs	O
(	O
52.84	O
trillion	O
floating-point	B-Algorithm
calculations	O
per	O
second	O
)	O
using	O
nearly	O
10,000	O
processor	O
cores	O
(	O
in	O
about	O
4800	O
dual-core	O
processors	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
runs	O
the	O
Linux	B-Application
operating	I-Application
system	I-Application
,	O
with	O
an	O
SMP	O
kernel	O
specially	O
modified	O
to	O
handle	O
very	O
large	O
symmetric	O
clusters	O
currently	O
cadenced	O
by	O
an	O
8-processors	O
central	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
a	O
second	O
generation	O
of	O
evolutions	O
,	O
the	O
next	O
generation	O
Tera-100	B-Device
reached	O
about	O
1petaFLOPS	O
using	O
processors	O
with	O
more	O
internal	O
cores	O
and	O
a	O
new	O
central	O
scheduling	O
system	O
allowing	O
asymmetric	O
operation	O
on	O
a	O
variable	O
number	O
of	O
processors	O
,	O
for	O
easier	O
upgrades	O
,	O
lower	O
maintenance	O
cost	O
,	O
and	O
more	O
experiences	O
requiring	O
different	O
computing	O
scales	O
,	O
without	O
having	O
to	O
rebuild	O
the	O
whole	O
cluster	O
.	O
</s>
