Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 23:35:44 05/12/04
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On May 13, 2004 at 01:21:50, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On May 12, 2004 at 22:56:45, margolies,marc wrote: > >>OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 12 (UPI) -- Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said >>Wednesday the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will build the world's most powerful >>supercomputer by 2007 >>...... >>The supercomputer will be housed in a new 170,000 square foot facility that >>includes room for 400 staff members in 40,000 square feet of space. The machines >>will run on 12 megawatts of power, which will be supplied by the Tennessee >>Valley Authority. > >What sort of processors, how many, how much ram, etc? All this tells us is it'll >be huge & use too much power. :) to know all news about supercomputers , go here -> http://www.top500.org/main/news.php "The project submitted by Oak Ridge scientists envisions a computer capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second. " And a recent new supercomp : http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39154261,00.htm " California Digital, a 55-person company located on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, created Thunder from 1,024 four-processor Itanium 2 servers to perform a variety of tasks at the lab. Capable of performing 19.94 trillion operations per second, it would have ranked second in the Top 500 list of supercomputers published bi-annually by the University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, had it made the deadline "
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