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IBM supercomputer is world's new fastest?

By Derek Sooman

On September 30, 2004, 1:06 PM

IBM is claiming that its new supercomputer is the world's fastest, and steals the crown from Earth Simulator as the top of the top 500. The Blue Gene/L machine has reached a sustained peak of 36.01 trillion calculations per second—or 36.01 teraflops—during internal tests in the company's laboratory in Rochester, Minn.

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  1. September 30, 2004 3:05 PM
    Per Hansson said:
    And all this while not even being built yet, now [b]that[/b] is an impressive feat:D
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