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University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $100 Per GFLOPS Barrier

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have constructed and demonstrated a parallel supercomputer that achieves application performance of more than 1 billion floating point operations per second (GFLOPS) for every $100 spent on building the machine, using standard PC parts in a Linux "Beowulf" cluster.
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