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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. "best", but not most sexy... by green+pizza · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most sexy belongs to the Thinking Machines CM-5 "Blinking Machines":

    (Nice big CM5)
    http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/MetaComp/Imag es/CM5_lg.jpg


    Makes the SGI Origins (see below) look like freakshows:

    (128 CPU Origin 2000)
    http://gepard.cyf-kr.edu.pl/GRIZZLY/or2.jpg

    (A cluster of [many] 128 CPU O2K's)
    http://www.ccic.gov/pubs/blue00/local_images/blue_ mountain.jpg

    (A 256 CPU O3K, a 16 CPU O2K, and some RAIDs)
    http://www.cines.fr/images/IRISetMINERVE2.jpg

  2. 500 Fastest Computers In The World by robbyjo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Visit here to view 500 fastest computers in the world as of June 2001. Cray is actually number 11. IBM ASCI White SP Power 3 is the king.

    It's interesting to note that a beowulf cluster is also there (#42)

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