SGI Altix Outperforms others in HPC Challenge
SGI has
announced that its Altix 3000 system has outperformed machines
from IBM, Cray and Sun.
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Results submitted March 2 by SGI show that a 64-processor SGI Altix system bested similarly configured servers from IBM, Cray and Sun on five of the HPC Challenge (HPCC) Benchmark's list of eight tests. The HPCC benchmark extends the Linpack benchmark used to determine the well-known Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers."