Intel builds fastest computer on the planet

[W1zzard]

Intel (http://www.intel.com) has congratulated NASA and SGI on building Project Columbia (http://www1.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/jul/HQ_04243_supercomput.html), an Itanium2-based system that boasts a world-record speed of 42 trillion floating point operations per second (42 teraFLOP/s) and was deployed in less than six months.

[wazzledoozle]

Its faster than that Earth simulator in japan?

[phaze1]

Its faster than that Earth simulator in japan?

yeah it's faster then the earth simulator in japan.

[wazzledoozle]

yeah it's faster then the earth simulator in japan.
Holy $#$^^#@@^ thats fast
I would like to see how it would do with some server racks of X800 XT PE :D