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Cray SX-6 Installed in Alaska

Posted by timothy on from the good-air-conditioning dept.

Dhrakar writes: "Now, I know that normally press releases are imediately round-filed, however, as this is the first NEC^H^H^HCray SX-6 to be installed in the U.S. it is newsworthy. The 8cpu, 64Gb system has been installed at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center for benchmarking and other testing. See either ARSC or the NY Times (sub. required. Yada, yada) article."

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  1. Real supercomputer, really from Cray by Sivar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What I am waiting for is the Cray SV2 which can have up to 1024 Cray vector processors. Who needs a beowulf cluster?

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    Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
  2. 500MHz ? by FwOOm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A system that can pump out 64 gflops only running at a measly 500Mhz? Really shows how poorly mhz is as a measure of system performance.