World's *New* Fastest Supercomputer Powered by Intel Itanium 2

gustav

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• Nov 10, 2004

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NEC's Earth Simulator has been bumped off the #1 slot by a new supercomputer built by SGI utilizing 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors for NASA. Read more here.

 

Daewood

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• Nov 10, 2004

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oh man i wonder how many WU's that thing could go through in one hour

 

Ebola

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• Nov 10, 2004

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Daewood said:

oh man i wonder how many WU's that thing could go through in one hour

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All of them.

 

tom10167

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• Nov 10, 2004

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^^hahaha

 

CrystalMethod

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• Nov 10, 2004

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Ebola said:

All of them.

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Good one!

 

JigPu

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• Nov 11, 2004

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Yet according to the Top500, the Columbia is in second place to IBM's BlueGene (with the poor Earth Simulator in 3rd).

Just goes to show how benchmarks, even for supercomputers, are subject to revising
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