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Old 09-29-2004, 05:45 AM  
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Originally posted by KRL
IBM just gained back the world's fastest supercomputer title from NEC of Japan which has held the top spot for the past 3 years.

IBM's new supercomputer Blue Gene/L can crunch calculations at speeds of 36 Teraflops. (A Teraflop is 1 Trillion Calculations per Second.)

The system has 130,000 CPU's and takes 64 racks of space.
130,000 CPU's
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