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  Intel gains, AMD drops in closely watched tally of world's 500 fastest computers - International Herald Tribune 

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/12/business/NA-TEC-US-Fastest-Computers.php

  NEW YORK : IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. improved their standings Monday in the newest tally of the world's fastest 500 computers, a closely watched measure of progress in the industry. The list, published ... twice a year by academic researchers, once again was topped by an IBM Corp. supercomputer in the Lawrence Livermore national nuclear lab. The BlueGene/L system, as it is known, was recently upgraded and showed the ability to perform at 478 teraflops — 478 trillion calculations per second. That's tens of thousands of times faster than your average desktop PC today. The No. 2 performer was an IBM supercomputer in a German research center that came in at 167 teraflops. No. 3 was a 127-teraflop system made by Silicon Graphics Inc. for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center. For the first time, India placed a machine in the top 10: a 118-teraflop Hewlett-Packard Co. system in a research center run by Tata Sons Ltd. in Pune, India. IBM accounted for 46 percent of the computers on the lis   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  advanced micro devices, amd, computer speed, computer speeds, hewlett-packard , hp, ibm, intel, rankings, silicon graphics, supercomputer, supercomputers, tata   [More...] [Less...]