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Fastest Computer?? I'm not sure but this Might be it.. And its not
complete yet..

http://www.bootnet.com/bootwire_1296.html#TheUltimateQuakeMachine

The Ultimate Quake Machine
Intel Corporation and the United States Department of Energy
announced they have built a parallel supercomputer that can perform
one trillion operations per second, shattering the previous record by
over 250 percent.

Utilizing only three-fourths of the final supercomputer�7,264 of the
planned 9,200 Pentium Pro processors, the Intel/Sandia Teraflops
systems performance of 1.06 teraflops (or trillions of floating point
 operations per second) wiped out the previous record set by a
  supercomputer of 368.2 gigaflops (billions of operations per second).

 "Today�s accomplishment is computing�s equivalent to breaking the
 sound barrier," said Dr. Craig R. Barrett, Intel executive vice
president
 and chief operating officer.

At completion, the computer will have 9,200 Pentium Pro processors
and is expected to perform at sustained transfer rates of 1.4 teraflops
and peak rates of two teraflops. The system will be installed at the
Sandia National Labratories in New Mexico in the first half of 1997.






Rakesh Malik wrote:

> Chris Leung (Grge...@silcon.com) wrote:
> : Rakesh Malik <vl...@hops.cs.jhu.edu> wrote in article
> : <5oc1ll$3...@foobar.cs.jhu.edu>...
> : > Pete Wilson (pwi...@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
> : > : Andy wrote:
> : > : >
> : > : > On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 11:22:03 -0700, Levi Cochran
> : > : > <levi.c...@Ebay.sun.com> wrote:
> : > : >
> : > : > > I read about this computer in the paper.
> : > : > > Isn't the first computer to do a trillion calculations a
> sec.
> : > : > > I think it had 200+ PPros in parallel.
> : > : > >
> : > : > > All of this could have actually been a dream I had, but I
> think
> : it's
> : > : > > pretty close to being correct.
> : > : >
> : > : > 200+ PPros in parallel would not make the fastest computer.
> Cray
> : > : > makes supercomputers using 512 500MHz Alphas in parallel.  To
> make an
> : > : > Intel-based machine as powerful as this, you'd need to
> parallel 2048
> : > : > PPros (large-scale parallelling is done in powers of 2).  This
> begs
> : > : > the question: why?  The Alpha solution would be more efficient
> and
> : > : > less expensive to implement.
> : >     That is completely true, 200 PPro's is not a lot of PPro's
> relative
> : > to a high-end SGI/Cray supercomputer.  However, the world's
> fastest
> : computer
> : > is a supercomputer at Sandia National Labs (I believe they are
> still an
> : > afilliate of Lockheed Martin) built around 9,200 PPro 200 CPU's.
> It's
> : capable
> : > of 1.4 teraflops, and has yet to be matched by ANYTHING.  I doubt
> that
> : > that will remain the case for long, but today that's the winner.
> It's
> : also
> : > the only one of its kind that I know of.
> : >     According to rumour, it can boot Windows 95 in under a
> minute... ;)
> : >
> : >     -Rakesh
> : >
>
> : Isn't the fastest computer right now the Omega Red.. the Pentagon
> has it.
> : Consisting of 2 terrabytes of storage and LOTs of PPros...?
>         No, it's the one at Sandia that I described above.  It has
> more
> PPros than anything else has of anything right now.
>
>         -Rakesh