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internetnews.com: IBM Sits Atop Supercomputer List

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 9, 2004

“As expected, IBM took over the top slot on the Top500
supercomputing list with a BlueGene/L system that shatters previous
Linpack benchmarks at 70.7 trillion floating points per second
(teraflops).

“Second on the list, unveiled Monday at the Supercomputing 2004
conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., was the Columbia system built by
SGI, which was installed at the NASA Ames Research Center in
Mountain View, Calif. Columbia rated 51.8 teraflops…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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