Sun Unveils The Most Powerful Super-Computer on the Planet. Click here for the story.

This is one amazing system. It will certainly make up for many inadequacies.

  • 504 Teraflops Peak Performance (504 trillion floating point operations per second)
  • The supercomputer contains 82 Sun Blade 6048 Modular Systems racks
  • Each rack holds 48 Sun Fire 6000 Blade Servers, for a total of 3,936
  • Each blade has four quad-core AMD processors
  • That makes a total of 15,744 AMD processors, with 62,976 cores!
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