EUROPE'S NEW SUPERCOMPUTER BOOTED UP
Europe's fastest supercomputer, which can make 40 trillion calculations per
second, booted up for the first time at a research center in Barcelona.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/14/euro.su...r.ap/index.html
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Its memory is equal to the combined memories of nearly 20,000 personal computers, and its storage system has a capacity of 233 terabytes, the equivalent of the information in 29 million books. |
Here are the Top 500 supercomputers in the world (released in june 2005): https://www.top500.org/lists/plists.php?Y=2005&M=06
It looks like IBM has the supremacy in computers. Also I noticed the US research is way ahead of Europe and even Asia. Europeans have to work harder and invest more in research or they'll be in trouble.
Offtopic but, Q: What's faster than an IBM BlueGene/L? A: Maybe a Ferrari ... with an IBM BlueGene/L board computer. |