America in danger or sinking into the sea under the weight of its processors...
By Aled Herbert, 29 October 2001 08:40
NEWS Compaq will today take the wraps of its latest supercomputer, Terascale. The computer is powered by 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors housed in 750 separate servers connected by high-speed Quadric interconnections. Terascale can perform six trillion calculations per second - the equivalent of 10,000 desktop PCs. The computer has to struggle by with a feeble three terabytes of RAM. US wires report.
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