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Terascale Computing System Installed

Posted by Hemos on from the more-power-then....something dept.

lysie writes The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, with Compaq and the NSF, has installed the Terascale Computing System. Worldwide, it's second in power only to ASCI White at Livermore. However, it's the most powerful system in the world for unclassified research--6 teraflops per second. 3,000 Compaq Alpha EV68 microprocessors, in 750 four-processor AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX."

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  1. A chance to run Windows now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe now I can have enough RAM to run Windows XP :-)

  2. teraflops per second ? by Professeur+Shadoko · · Score: 4, Funny

    a flop is a floating point operation per second.
    a teraflop per second would be an acceleration in processing power... not what the article means I guess

  3. floating-point operations per second per second? by bdg · · Score: 2, Funny

    A rate of acceleration. The first computer to mature with age? Give it a year and it'll be doing 1.89e17 flops. Can you imagine a beowolf cluster of these? :P

  4. ...and then Microsoft jumps in by Arkoth · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bill Gates throws a 150 million dollar payment check for the rights of running Microsoft Windows XP on the massive machine.
    Leave the fastest computer alone!

    Gates: You will run Windows, Resistance is Futile!