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To: Don Green who wrote (12753)	10/26/2004 1:41:24 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 14451

First part of press release--------from yahoo. NASA's Columbia Supercomputer Is World's Fastest Tuesday October 26, 1:10 pm ET NASA, SGI and Intel Achieve Record Performance on 10,240-CPU Altix System Deployed at NASA Ames MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) with NASA today confirmed that NASA's new Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based Columbia supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world. Only days after NASA completed installation of Columbia -- and using just 16 of Columbia's 20 installed systems -- the new supercomputer achieved sustained performance of 42.7 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), eclipsing the performance of every supercomputer operating today.-------------