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November 2, 2004
SGI Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer
If you missed it in the news, SGI built the fastest supercomputer in the world for NASA. Named Columbia, this new supercomputer has 10,240 Itanium-2 processors and kicks some serious floating-point arithmetic ass. Officially it performs at 42.7 teraflops (42.7 trillion calculations per second), beating out IBM's latest supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, by more than 6 teraflops and gives SGI the number one spot in the world. It also gives me a paycheck :)
To me, the most important thing about this achievement is that SGI's machine runs Linux. Its another great milestone for Open Source - may there be many more (e.g. Firefox 1.0)! I feel so lucky that I get paid to work on Open Source Linux systems! Go Tux!
Posted by josh at November 2, 2004 1:52 AM