"X1" To Be Fastest Supercomputer
Poster: doily
Posted on November 15, 2002 at 10:10:05 PM
The "X1", which is built by Cray will take the crown of fastest supercomputer ever produced. Pricing in at $2.5 million each(base price), it can process 52.4 trillion calculations a second, dwarfing NEC's Earth Simulator (presently the fastest supercomputer) which can churn out 35.6 trillion per second. Full story here
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"Supercomputers harness the collective power of a large number of processors. Scientists apply this power to predict the weather, conduct experiments or simulate nuclear explosions; companies use it to design and test products such as automobiles and airplanes"