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MICROSOFT KOREA DEVELOPS SUPER COMPUTER NAMED 'PEGASUS'

SEOUL, Nov 12, 2002 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Microsoft (MS) Korea said today it has succeeded in developing one of the world's fiftieth fastest super computers, along with Intel Corp., Seoul National University and Samsung Electronics Co (KSE:05930).

The computer, called "Pegasus", combines a clutch of separate systems operated by two central processing units through Notel's high-speed gigabit networks. Each system has 3GB memory and an 80GB hard disk drive, the company said.

Operated by Microsoft's Windows 2000, the computer also has 360 built-in Xeon processors of Intel.

MS Korea said the new gadget recorded 685 gigaflops in computer speed performance test program, Linpack, ranking among the world's top 50 super computers in terms of speed. A gigaflop, a measure of computer speed, is a billion floating-point operations per second.

The speed is about two times faster than IBM's super computer, currently considered the fastest in South Korea.

"It is cheap to set up Pegasus because it doesn't need special cooling devices so that it can be easily used not only at research centers, but at industrial workplaces," an MS official said.

(Yonhap)