From: Doug Bailey (Doug.Bailey@ey.com)
Date: Wed Oct 28 1998 - 12:19:10 MST
> Last night on my favorite web news(non)paper, I saw an
> announcement about Intel's latest supercomputer Pacific
> Blue, which manages 3.9 teraflops. I think that's the
> current record.
Actually, NEC's SX-5 series can peak at 4 Tflops. SGI's
Mountain Blue, to be powered up in November at LANL, is
allegedly going to be able to peak at 4 Tflops also. IBM
is building a 10 Tflop machine machine for the DOE to come
online in mid-2000. Additionally, IBM is working on a
100 Tflop beast to operate at Livermore and simulate H-bomb
detonations. That machine is expected to power up around 2004.
As an aside, a computer engineer stated a petaflop machine
could be built today. The only problem is it would cost
US$ 55 x 10^9 to build.
Doug Bailey
doug.bailey@ey.com
nanotech@cwix.com
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