July 6, 2007
IBM Says Its New Supercomputer Will Outperform One at U. of Texas
The arms race among supercomputing manufacturers seems to be heating up.
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to build a massive new machine, to be called "Ranger," for the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center.
The supercomputer will be able to complete 504 trillion calculations per second — or 504 teraflops, in supercomputing terminology. That easily trumps the current world-beater, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's BlueGene/L,
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