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Way to go Big Blue.

1 posted on 11/05/2004 7:45:23 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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2 posted on 11/05/2004 7:50:04 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

7 billion calculations per penny. What a bargain!

3 posted on 11/05/2004 7:54:54 AM PST by Tai_Chung

To: fivetoes

Blue bump!

4 posted on 11/05/2004 3:24:23 PM PST by softengine (Correlate everything. Practice critical thinking. Don't be a sheeple.)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Last week, NASA announced that a system built by Silicon Graphics Inc. had topped that by sustaining 42 trillion calculations per second.

Well that record didn't last long. I was one of the ones who built this Silicon Graphics system. Good thing we already had our party.

Now back to work ... that 70 trillion is going to take a little more work to beat.

5 posted on 11/05/2004 9:05:27 PM PST by ThePythonicCow (I was humble, before I was born. -- J Frondeur Kerry)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Both Blue Gene and the NASA computers are still unfinished

But the NASA computer from Silicon Graphics is a bought and paid for production system, installed on the customers premises, running their work.

I hear tell the IBM Blue Gene system is still physically located in some IBM lab somewhere.

6 posted on 11/05/2004 9:10:48 PM PST by ThePythonicCow (I was humble, before I was born. -- J Frondeur Kerry)

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