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Subject: Re: New Cray System - X1

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 04:39:25 01/03/03

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On January 03, 2003 at 06:08:06, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On January 03, 2003 at 05:46:14, Michael Vox wrote:
>
>>http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/fixup.pl?story=http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/02/030102hncray.xml&dctag=servers
>>
>>"I wonder how many CPUs it takes to reach the 52 trillion mark and how many CPUs
>>is included in the 2.5 million version of the hardware :)"
>>
>
>take a look at the brochure page 2 :
>http://cray.com/products/systems/x1/crayx1_brochure.pdf
>
>CPUs  PEAK PERFORMANCE
>16    205 Gflops
>64    819 Gflops
>64    819 Gflops
>256   3.27 Tflops
>512   6.55 Tflops
>1024  13.1 Tflops
>2048  26.2 Tflops
>4096  52.4 Tflops

Although the 4096 CPU system *would* be the world's fastest computer if one was
built, nobody has ordered one yet, and so one has not been built.

Hence the world's fastest computer is still Japan's "Earth Simulator".

To keep up to date, follow the supercomputer chart here: http://www.top500.org

-g



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