Race for fastest computer heats up (CNN)

[Posted November 19, 2002 by ris]

CNN covers a couple of new supercomputers from IBM. "At the SuperComputing 2002 conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham was to announce a $290 million contract with IBM to build two new supercomputers, one of which, dubbed ASCI Purple, is expected to clock in at 100 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second."

Here's IBM's press release.