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“Supercomputing was a new concept when IBM created Deep Blue,
the monster machine that successfully defeated chess champion Garry
Kasparov in 1997.“Peter Crane, a lead PC assembly technician at Utah’s Linux
NetworX, is part of a team that built a clustered computer for a
national research laboratory in California.“Today–and possibly only briefly, managers admit–a Utah
company lays claim to having made the world’s fastest Linux-based
computer.“And the machine, put together by Linux NetworX Inc., is a
behemoth. About the size of a tennis court, it provides 11 trillion
calculations a second, according to Clark Roundy, vice president of
marketing for Linux NetworX. ‘To put that into perspective, it
would take more than 11,000 PCs a day to do the same thing. Or one
system 30 years to do what this system can do in a day…'”