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Old July 25th, 2005, 06:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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JAPAN PLANS THE WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER
july 25th :10:47 A.M.[E.T.
BY:CHISAKI WATANABE

TOKYO[AP]

AMERICAN BLUE GENE/L SYSTEM SUPER COMPUTER developed by:INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORP[ORATION

LAWRENCE @ LIVERMORE NATIONAL laboratories in livermore currently holds the title of the world's fastest computer-that machine is capable of 136.8 teraflpos or 136.8 trillions calculations per seconds according to :
JAPANS MINISTRY of EDUCATION, CULTURE SPORTS SCIECE AND TECH.

JAPAN wants to develop a super computer that can operate at petaflops or 10 quadrilla calculations per second which is 73 times faster than the BLUE GENE

KYODU NEWS reported: the total maount for the project is estimated between 80 billion and 100 billion yen[714 million to 893 million ] and the ministry will request 10 billion yen[ 89 million ] for the next fiscal years budget.

*JAPAN'S EARTH SIMULATOR SUPERCOMPUTER was fast until 2004 when IBM'S BLUE GENE took the title.

*For more additional information go to the following website:

www.dellnews.com
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Old July 25th, 2005, 09:13 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I'm suprised they waited this long.
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Old July 25th, 2005, 10:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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The link did not work for me lizaa
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Old July 25th, 2005, 10:51 PM   #4 (permalink)
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here's a link.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/...h_down&chan=tc

Interesting though. I can only imagine how expensive these will be the first time out the box.
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Old July 25th, 2005, 10:53 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Old July 26th, 2005, 01:09 AM   #6 (permalink)
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sorry about that charlie~~Thank you Chelbe for taking care of it for me..did you get my post regarding that job situation ??
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Old July 26th, 2005, 10:49 AM   #7 (permalink)
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"10 quadrillion calculations per second,"! Perfect machine to play Quake4 on!
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I wonder if they're willing to join my grid.org or SETI@home team
 
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