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09-Jun-2008, 08:02
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.html?hp
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/index.shtml
Military Supercomputer Sets Record
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: June 9, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
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“This is equivalent to the four-minute mile of supercomputing,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee who for several decades has tracked the performance of the fastest computers.
Also there's an old topic ;)
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=25061
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/index.shtml
Military Supercomputer Sets Record
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: June 9, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
...
“This is equivalent to the four-minute mile of supercomputing,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee who for several decades has tracked the performance of the fastest computers.
Also there's an old topic ;)
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=25061