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[Day Permalink] Monday, November 3, 2003

[Item Permalink] Apple G5 dual supercluster achieves over 10 teraflop/s -- Comment()
On the report on top-500 supercomputers dated November 2nd the Apple G5 supercluster has achieved a speed of over 10 teraflop/s.

Here is a listing of the top-5 systems from the draft report:

System Nr of procs R_max R_peak
Earth Simulator 5120 35860 40960
ASCI Q AlphaServer 8160 13880 20480
Apple G5 dual 2200 10280 17600
HP RX2600 Itanium 2 1936 8633 11616
ASCI Q AlphaServer 4096 7727 10240
All the speeds are in gigaflop/s (10^9 floating point operations per second).