On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The most powerful supercomputer currently operational (according to
> www.top500.org) is ASCI Red, with a maximum speed of 1.8 TFLOPS.
You're behind. The fastest unclassified machine at the moemnt is Pacific
Blue, at 3.9 TFLOPS, and 2.6 terabytes of memory. It has 5856 processors,
based on IBM RS/6000 technology, weights about 50 tons, needs about three
tennis-fields worth of floor-space, and costs around a measly $100
millions. IBM has apparently thought about the Internet paraller-tasks
already, because they threw out a figure that 15.000 "normal" desktops
would be needed for the same power. It's used for modeling nuclear
processes, "to maintain USA's nuclear stockpiles without the need of
further nuclear tests".
-Donwulff
