[ Thanks to Thuan for this link. ]
German Magazine, MogenWelt, has a small article on a new
SuperComputer that claims to be the second fastest in the world for
its kind.
By using Bablefish to
translate we were able to obtain the following:
“Fast computers excessively do not have to be expensive.
Scientists of the University of Chemnitz tinkered one of the
fastest computers of Germany from standard individual parts. It had
a memory of 264 gigabyte, the fixed disks seize more than ten
Terabyte at data. Its ” heart ” consists of 528 PentiumIII
processors, which are clocked with 800 mc/s….”
“The cluster computer in such a way specified is occupied also
European-wide the most efficient computer in the new Lands of the
Federal Republic and a point workstation. In the group of the
cluster computers it is the second fastest of the world. The
computer at the same time costs only approximately a fifth of the
total, which a comparable supercomputer would cost: Instead of
12 to 15 million Marks only approximately 2.5 million had to be
invested. The operating system of the new high-performance computer
gab’s even free of charge: It runs under the freely available
Linux.“