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Cray SV1 Named Best Supercomputer for 2001

Posted by Hemos on from the and-the-winnnaaahhh dept.

zoombat writes "The BBC reported that the Cray SV1 product line won the Readers' Choice Award for Best Supercomputer for 2001 by the readers of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine. These beasts have some pretty remarkable stats, including a 300 Mhz CPU clock, up to 192 4.8 GFLOPS CPUs or 1229 1.2 GFLOPS CPUs, and up to a terabyte of memory. And they sure know how to paint 'em real nice. Of course, we all know how "scientific" the Readers' Choice Awards are..."

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  1. Re:500 Fastest Computers In The World by RussGarrett · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It does list some of them, they're just not classified under "Cracking International Terrorists' PGP Keys". There are a few under "Classified", and "Energy Research" seems to need an awful lot of computers....

  2. Re:Linux cost comparison by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You have blasphemied against Linux. Prepare to be flamed by all of Slashdot.