[angelmb]

Concluding a 15-week effort with NASA and Intel to build and successfully install the world's most powerful supercomputer, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that the new 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer is fully deployed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility located at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Unlike traditional supercomputer deployments that have taken years to become fully viable, Columbia was available to scientists throughout its installation, giving NASA and the U.S. Government an immediate and revolutionary boost in capabilities as they strive to solve some of history's most demanding scientific problems.

SGI with NASA and Intel confirmed that Columbia has achieved world record performance, even using only 16 of Columbia's 20 installed systems. Running LINPACK benchmarks, Columbia achieved sustained performance of 42.7 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), eclipsing the performance of every supercomputer operating today.

All that in fewer than 120 days... speechless. And people use to think SGI is dead.

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SGI is dead as we know it. Intel did this one

[angelmb]

Intel delivered the CPUs, that´s for sure, but the rest didn´t come by magic SGI is the king about bandwidht power and lot of more tech features.

[olePigeon]

Is that only 42.7 teraflops?

[d4nth3m4n]

i bet it could play counter strike like nobodies business. even on vpc.

and minesweeper, fuggheddaboudid.