Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has brought its new Teton flagship supercomputer online. Built to model and simulate nuclear reactor designs, the 20.8 petaflops system quadruples the capacity of compute power offered by the lab.

The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”

The US DOE has launched the Teton supercomputer at INL, quadrupling computing power to accelerate high-fidelity nuclear reactor simulations.