[Non-member submission]
At 10:48 4/08/00 -0400, you wrote:
>The most powerful military supercomputer is a 12 teraflop supercomputer
>called ASCI White, which is being installed at Lawrence Livermore National
>Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The machine will cost $110 million, take up
>two basketball courts worth of floor space, weigh 106 tons and will 8.192
>processors.
And the most powerful non-military computer is the virtual one running the
Seti-at-Home <http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/>
software. Also quoted at currently running at approximately 12
teraflops. Its interesting to see some commercial companies (e.g. Popular
Power) now being formed to try to cash in this potential.
http://www.popularpower.com/.
best, patrick
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Patrick
Wilken http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au
Department of Psychology
University of Melbourne, Australia +61 3
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