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To: stockman_scott who wrote (4774)	11/5/2004 12:14:17 AM
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IBM Supercomputer Again Claims Record Thu Nov 4, 8:02 PM ET Technology - AP By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. - A $100 million supercomputer being built to analyze the nation's nuclear stockpile has again set an unofficial performance record — the second in just over a month. IBM Corp.'s still-incomplete Blue Gene/L system, which will be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieved a sustained performance of 70.72 trillion calculations per second using a standard test program, the Department of Energy (news - web sites) said Thursday. The world's current official leader, Japan's Earth Simulator, can sustain 35.86 trillion calculations per second using the same software. The announcement is the latest in a series of claims leading up to next Tuesday's unveiling in Pittsburgh of the official list of the world's top computers. story.news.yahoo.com "Blue Gene, for instance, is just a quarter of its final planned size. When finished, it will exceed Earth Simulator's performance by a factor of nine but require just a fraction of the electricity used by the Japanese machine."