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Article: BENCHMARK ELECTRONIC FORMS JOINT EFFORT WITH SGI/NASA.
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- Mainframe Computing
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:BHE), Angleton. Texas, a leading contract manufacturing provider, has announced that, through a strategic alliance with Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (NASDAQ:SGIC),it helped create the computer system for which NASA achieved the ranking of third fastest supercomputer in the world.
NASA's new Pleiades system is a 51,200-core SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE 8200EX system from SGI and is capable of generating a theoretical peak of 609 trillion operations per second (TeraFLOPS). Benchmark worked closely with Silicon Graphics to manufacture Pleiades, which SGI deployed and optimized at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at NASA's Ames ...