Comet Supercomputer (IMAGE) U.S. National Science Foundation Caption SDSC's new Comet supercomputer, a petascale cluster funded by the NSF, is designed to run as many as 10,000 research jobs simultaneously. Credit Ben Tolo, SDSC Usage Restrictions None License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.