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20th January 2001 Archive

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  • Compaq Alpha-chip supercomp boasts 30x power increase

    Open the pod bay door please, HAL....

    Compaq intends to build a supercomputer capable of 100 teraflops (trillion operations per second), or approximately thirty times as powerful as the baddest machine currently in use. It will be developed in partnership with the Sandia nuclear lab and genomics outfit Celera. The monster box will be used for advanced biological …

    Business 20 Jan 2001, 23:17