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The most powerful supercomputer in the world

31 October 2007

Japanese company NEC has created the most powerful in the world supercomputer SX-9 which peak performance makes 839 billion operations with floating decimal point in a second (839 TFLOPS).

Till now the most powerful in the world was a supercomputer BlueGene/L developed by experts of IBM together with US Nuclear Safety. Its productivity makes 280,6 TFLOPS.

It is necessary to note that in 2008 the rank of founders of the most powerful world supercomputer will again return to IBM, as the next year this company plans to finish construction of Roadrunner, which peak performance for the first time in a history will overcome 1000 TFLOPS.


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