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Documents accidentally posted on a government web site reveal that IBM may build the world's fastest computer: a $200 million PETAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A petaflop is a thousand trillion mathematical operations per second.
THE US NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications - has pulled out of its contract with IBM for a supercomputer that can sustain a petaflop.
Originally posted by macFiachna
NCSA cancels its petaflop supercomputer deal with IBM
THE US NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications - has pulled out of its contract with IBM for a supercomputer that can sustain a petaflop.
I've been following this machine since it first became a possibility, and I am a bit surprised it was cancelled. Ah, well.
Originally posted by Don Wahn
This seems like it would be good for the types of problems that require massive amounts of computing power, but what else could this phenomenal speed be used for? ...