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SGI, IBM Wrest Lead From NEC; Truly Super Computers; Machine that performs 42.7 trillion calculations per second heats up field.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
Byline: KEN SPENCER BROWN
Gentlemen, start your programs.
The race to build the world's brawniest computer, all but ceded to Japan's NEC over the past two years, is on again as two U.S. firms claim those bragging rights.
In separate efforts, IBM and Silicon Graphics say they've topped NEC's Earth Simulator in internal tests, relieving fears that the U.S. had lost its computing prowess.
While the companies designed the new supercomputers for government agencies, both are betting that the machines will have broader appeal among commercial customers.
"This is a historic day," said Scott Hubbard, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The agency last week launched Columbia, a system that links 20 of SGI's Altix systems into a single machine said to be the world's fastest.
IBM recently said early tests of its Blue Gene/L system being built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, about an hour's drive from the NASA center, also beat the Earth Simulator.
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