jtico
07-30-2006, 02:20 PM
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In the supercomputer universe, bragging rights go to the machine packed with the most number-crunching speed. And a spirited competition has raged for several years now between the U.S. and Japan for leadership in high-performance computing. For the last two years, IBM's BlueGene/L at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory kept the U.S. in the lead over a meteorological modeling machine developed by NEC called the Earth Simulator.
Link (http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=1220059R0ADY&page=1)
In the supercomputer universe, bragging rights go to the machine packed with the most number-crunching speed. And a spirited competition has raged for several years now between the U.S. and Japan for leadership in high-performance computing. For the last two years, IBM's BlueGene/L at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory kept the U.S. in the lead over a meteorological modeling machine developed by NEC called the Earth Simulator.
Link (http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=1220059R0ADY&page=1)