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Tuesday, October 30, 2001
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/14449.html Compaq Unveils New Supercomputer By Tim McDonald, NewsFactor Network Compaq Computer takes the wraps off its newest supercomputer Monday, a mammoth cluster capable of ciphering six trillion calculations per second. That speed makes it the world's fastest supercomputer conducting unclassified research. The Terascale Computing System, built and operated by the University of Pittsburgh's Supercomputing Center through a US$45 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is powered by 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors housed in 750 separate servers, all connected by high-speed interconnections from Quadrics, a European firm specializing in clustering technology....
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