[freetech] ot: Fw: World's fastest computer is now Japanese: report
- From: "Samuel Proulx" <samuelp@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <freetech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:58:04 -0400
This doesn't have anything to do with free stuff or software, but It's
interesting just the same. What would anyone do with all that computing
power? What ever they're doing, they aren't sharing it with me!
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From: "Don Roszmann" <don@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lisa Carmelle" <lcarmelle@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:58 PM
Subject: World's fastest computer is now Japanese: report
POSTED AT 11:37 AM EDT Saturday, April 20
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Reuters News Agency
New York
- A Japanese laboratory has built the world's fastest computer, one with the
computing power of the 20 fastest U.S. computers combined, The New York
Times reported on Saturday.
The computer is nearly five times faster than the previous leader, a machine
built by International Business Machines Corp., according to Jack Dongarra,
a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains an authoritative
list of the world's fastest computers, the Times said.
The Japanese government spent $350-million (U.S.) to $400-million to develop
the supercomputer over the past five years, Akira Sekino, president and
chief executive of HNSX Supercomputers, a unit of NEC Corp. of Littleton,
Colorado, told the newspaper.
The computer, which is known as the NEC Earth Simulator, was intended to
analyze climate changes, including global warming, as well as weather and
earthquake patterns, the Times said.
Mr. Dongarra said the Earth Simulator had 5,104 processors and could reach a
speed of 35,600 gigaflops, or billions of mathematical operations per
second.
The old supercomputer speed record, he said, was held by the ASCI
White-Pacific computer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
California. Its 7,424 processors generate a speed of 7,226 gigaflops a
second.
The Earth Simulator was formally dedicated in March, and had been installed
at the Earth Simulator Research and Development Center in Yokohama, west of
Tokyo, the Times said. The Japan Marine Science and Technology Center said
on Friday the computer had reached more than 87 per cent of its theoretical
peak speed, it said.
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