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Index Key:   COM018
Author:      e buchler
Subject:     Fastest computer.
How fast is the fastest computer?

Response #:  1 of 1
Author:      asmith
Well, I just got a note in the mail that a computer at Sandia National Lab
in New Mexico (an Intel Paragon parallel computer with nearly 2000 proces-
sors) just beat the old record for speed on a standard linear algebra
benchmark, doing over 140 billion floating point operations per second.  So,
I guess that is an answer... For non-parallel machines the fastest speed I
think is around 1 billion "FLOPS", and that record is held either by an NEC
supercomputer or by something from Cray.
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