• DocumentCode
    1421422
  • Title

    Focus: Supercomputing: The next generation

  • Author

    Clark, David

  • Author_Institution
    Torrance, California
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1998
  • Firstpage
    79
  • Lastpage
    81
  • Abstract
    Just before November´s Supercomputing ´98 in Orlando, Florida, both Silicon Graphics and IBM claimed to have produced the world´s fastest supercomputers. At the same time, Compaq announced a world record for sorting one terabyte of data on its latest supercomputer. And just four months earlier, Japan´s NEC announced it had the world´s fastest supercomputer.
  • Keywords
    Benchmark testing; Computer architecture; Market research; Program processors; Standards; Supercomputers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1070-9924
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSE.1998.7102083
  • Filename
    7102083