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not that anyone seems to care

but here's a new press release just out about the new to-be-crowned (supposedly) top super computer, based (entirely? loosely?) on that Red Storm model by Cray I was talking about in my prior post. Well, reading it, now, it isn't clear that "the big one" will be red-storm based, but they're adding a "mini" (20 Tflop) supercomputer based on Red Storm :-)

hehe, supercomputers aren't commodities, but they're heading that direction ;-)

Cray Inc. Will Team With ORNL to Provide 100-Teraflop Department of Energy Leadership-Class Supercomputer
World's Most Powerful Computer Could Grow To 250 Teraflops in 2007

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004-- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it will collaborate with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to provide the world's most powerful supercomputer. The leadership-class system will be used for advanced scientific research.

A 100-teraflop (trillions of calculations per second) Cray system at Oak Ridge is planned for 2006, with the potential to grow to 250 teraflops in 2007. Near-term plans call for increasing the capacity of the current Cray X1(TM) supercomputer at ORNL to 20 teraflops in 2004, with a 20-teraflop Red Storm-based system from Cray added in 2005. The systems will be housed in ORNL's new National Leadership Computing Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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