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Daron Myrick wrote:
> 
> | > | > : > 200+ PPros in parallel would not make the fastest computer.
> Cray
> | > | > : > makes supercomputers using 512 500MHz Alphas in parallel.
> | >
> | > Cray doesn't make computers at all, they were bought out and name
> changed,
> | > cray no longer exists.
> |
> | Cray Still exists...  They are now a division of Silicon Graphics.
> | Cray continues to research, and develop new supercomputing technologies.
> 
> Ok, I'll take one at my house :-)

Well, I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but I'd have to say that
currently the fastest computer in the world was actually built by
Intel.  It was custom built for the US Department of Energy and has
9200 Pentium Pro 200MHz processors.  It has a performance of 1.34tflops
(1340mflops, or 1.34 trillion floating point operations per second). 
For more info, take a look at
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/CN0611B.HTM.
However, if you're looking for an off-the-shelf (as much as these things
go) supercomputer, then SGI-Cray may well produce the fastest.  I don't
really know, since I haven't really been shopping for one recently ;).

--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@doverpacific.nospam-com)
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