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“IBM Corp. has a challenger in the race to deliver the world’s
fastest Linux-based supercomputer. A day after the U.S. company
said it had received an order for what stands to be the fastest
such machine, Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd. has announced an order for a
faster machine that it expects to put into service at about the
same time.“The Fujitsu computing cluster will contain 2,048
as-yet-unidentified processors and stands to deliver a peak
performance of 12.4 trillion FLOPS (floating point operations per
second), the company said in a statement on Thursday. Fujitsu
received the order from Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical
Research (Riken), a governmental research organization that will
use the computer mainly in biotechnology research, and delivery is
scheduled for March 2004.“IBM said a day earlier that it plans to deliver also in March
next year a Linux-based supercomputer to Japan’s National Institute
for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The IBM
machine, based around Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Opteron 246
processors, will have a peak performance of 11.2T FLOPS…”
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