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Monday, April 22, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/21/fastest.supercomputer.ap/index.html Japanese computer is world's fastest NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A new Japanese supercomputer has taken the title of world's fastest away from an American computer, zipping along nearly five times faster than its closest competitor. The NEC Earth Simulator -- which creates a "virtual planet Earth" to predict climate patterns -- tops the 2002 list of fastest supercomputers released Saturday.... The NEC Earth Simulator, as large as four tennis courts, works at a speed of 35,600 gigaflops. A gigaflop equals a billion mathematical operations per second. The top-ranked computer on the list's November 2001 edition, IBM's ASCI White, runs at a speed of 7,226 gigaflops....
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