SGI and NASA jointly announce the NASA's Intanium 2 processor COLUMBIA Supercomputer in the world: the fastest computer:
"Tube IBM has just been refreshed in the second week, NEC has been maintained for two years of supercomputer speed record, but its record is again refreshed by SGI.
SGI announced this Tuesday, it was announced on Tuesday that it was sold to the US National Aviation and Cosmic Navigation Bureau (NASA), which is based on Linux, which is $ 50 million, each. Seconds can perform 42.7 trillion operations. However, this is not its highest speed, which only uses a fifth of 10240 Intel Anteng processors.
This speed is higher than the 36.1TFLOP of the IBM Blue Gene / L Super Computer System. SGI does not think that you can keep this record for how long it is. Dai Dafu, senior vice president of the company's server and platform group, is clear that several companies are sprinting, IBM can refresh the supercomputer speed record again. "
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