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Article #722233Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject>
From: quekky
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:00
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Rakesh Malik wrote in article <5oc1ll$3...@foobar.cs.jhu.edu>... > 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... ;) WOW! that makes the 1400 MHz computer as fast as a 120 MHz computer, i can boot win95 in less than a min (just installed one)!
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