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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Supercomputer Fifth Fastest in World in Top 500 List.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| November 17, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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RICHLAND, Wash. -- The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's supercomputer has been ranked No. 5 on the top 500 list of the fastest computers in the world that was released yesterday. The HP system installed at PNNL was designed specifically for complex computational environmental and biological sciences.

The latest list represents the first time the 11.8 teraflop supercomputer was ranked based on its full power. The machine consists of nearly 2,000 1.5GHz Intel(r) Itanium(r)-2 processors. The Top 500 list ranks computers based on their performance running a benchmark called Linpack, which is a method to measure a machine's ability to solve a set of dense linear equations. …

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