NEC has just announced a new world’s fastest supercomputer, the model SX-8. Just last month, IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L which (temporarily) took the top spot away from NEC.
NEC’s new machine performs at 65 trillion calculations per second, as compared to the 36.01 teraflops for IBM.
IBM is planning a souped-up version of the Blue Gene/L for 2005 availability which is expected to perform at 360 teraflops.
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I looked up the definition of teraflop and got: “one trillion floating point operations per second.” Now if only I had some clarification on this definition….