[ppi] [ppiindia] NASA meresmikan superkomputer tercepat didunia

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http://www.thehindu.com/2004/10/28/stories/2004102803271600.htm


NASA unveils fastest supercomputer 

 
 

HOUSTON, OCT. 27. The U.S. space agency NASA (National
Aeronautics and Space Administration) has unveiled the
world's fastest supercomputer at its Ames Research
Center in California, where the India-born astronaut
Kalpana Chawla worked for years in honour of the
seven-crew members of spacecraft Columbia that crashed
last year. 

Dubbed `Project Columbia,' the $50 million computer
built by Silicon Graphics is composed of 10,240
processors in 20 units, making it one of the world's
most powerful supercomputing systems. 

The system, which was unveiled yesterday, was built
and installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
facility at Ames in less than 120 days. 

Chawla's former colleagues and other NASA officials
paid tribute to her and other members of the ill-fated
mission with the technological breakthrough. NASA had
earlier named its unit No. 1 Kalpana after their
fallen colleague. 

The project is helping NASA scientists conduct studies
on weather, including tracking hurricane movement, and
in other scientific fields. 

"This amazing new supercomputer system dramatically
increases NASA's capabilities and revolutionises our
capacity for conducting scientific research and
engineering design,'' Ames Research Center Director,
G. Scott Hubbard, said. "It will be one of the
fastest, largest and most productive supercomputers in
the world, providing an estimated 10-fold increase in
NASA's supercomputing capacity.,'' Mr. Hubbard said. 

Project Columbia, which uses Intel Itanium chips, can
perform about 43 trillion computations per second,
surpassing the record of 36 trillion computation set
recently by IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer. ? PTI 








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