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Article: CRAY SAYS ITS SUPERCOMPUTER 34 PERCENT FASTER.(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Mainframe Computing
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY), Seattle, has announced that its supercomputers were the largest and fastest among leading vendors' systems in the latest independent list of the world's "Top500 Supercomputer Sites." In addition to averaging 34 percent faster than the closest major competitor in this theoretical speed test, the company's Cray T3E(TM) supercomputer continues to hold the world record for actual computer speed.
Cray said its average listed system included 509 processors and had a theoretical speed of 315.8 billion calculations per second, or gigaflops. The latter figure was 34 percent faster than closest major competitor Compaq (235.8 gigaflops), 37 percent ...