Author: pavel
Date: 23:16:26 08/09/01
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On August 10, 2001 at 02:12:10, pavel wrote: >probably slightly offtopic, > >http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500/top500.list.html > >this site contains top 500 lists of supercomputers, ranked based on Linpack >benchmark. > >kinda interesting (atleast to me). > >:) > >pavs... <snip> RS/6000 "ASCI White" Capable of 12 Trillion Calculations Per Second--Exceeds Performance Called for in Contract by 23% Poughkeepsie, N.Y., June 29, 2000. IBM today announced that the company has built the world's fastest supercomputer--capable of 12 trillion calculations per second--more than three times faster than the most powerful computer in existence today. Known as ASCI White, the RS/6000 SP supercomputer covers an area the size of two basketball courts and will be used by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program to help ensure the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile without real-world testing. In testing just completed at IBM facilities in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ASCI White demonstrated a record computational capability of 12.3 teraflops (trillions of operations/second)--exceeding the performance requirements of IBM's pioneering contract with the DOE by 23%. The system is scheduled to be fully installed at the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California by the end of the year. The Laboratory is operated for DOE by the University of California. <snip> Anyone has any idea about the differance in processing power of this_giant and deep_blue ? really curious!! pavs...
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