Supercomputer da AMD

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Ecco le specifiche tecniche del prossimo supercomputer basato sulla nuova cpu di AMD:
The supercomputer, code-named Red Storm, will contain approximately 10,000 Opteron chips and be capable of churning 40 trillion calculations per second (40 teraflops) when it becomes operational in 2004. NEC's Earth Simulator, currently the world's most powerful computer, can perform 35.9 trillion calculations per second. Several supercomputers are in the pipeline that will surpass NEC's figure.
The contract is part of the Department of Energy's Accelerated Strategic Computing (ASC) initiative to build supercomputers that can, among other complex tasks, simulate nuclear explosions. IBM, Compaq Computer and Intel have been involved in past ASCI projects. In the most recent ranking of supercomputers, notable ASC-funded systems came in at Nos. 2, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 15.