This cluster, located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has 8,192 processors, running at 1.25 GHz and delivering 13.9
teraflops. This machine has been on the list for quite some time, but it looks like big Linux clusters are getting ready to bypass it.
Ranked seventh on the top 10 is MCR, a 7.63
teraflops cluster Linux Networx built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last year that includes 2,304 Intel Xeon processors.
"There are significant applications that require more than just
teraFLOPS computing."
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Teraflops: One
teraflop is one trillion floating-point operations per second.
It has not yet attained its theoretical maximum performance in excess of 367
teraflops - and the 100
teraflops barrier has not yet been broken by any other supercomputer.
Blue Gene/L represents about $100m of that contract, and calls for IBM to deliver a 360
teraflops machine comprised of 65,536 compute processors.
The new Linux Networx facility includes a manufacturing area with the capacity to stage up to 50
teraflops of computing power simultaneously.
Currently, a number of manufacturers are developing prototypes that harness thousands of processors in parallel, in hopes of achieving
teraflops ([10.sup.12]) performance.