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Tianhe-1A: China and the world’s fastest supercomputer

News: Computer Power    October 28, 2010
It takes a coordinated team, in fact, a very large team of talented, schooled, adequately funded and dedicated people to develop a supercomputer to the pinnacle of ‘fastest in the world.’ This is the point that should not be overlooked in the headlines about China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer – soon to be anointed as the top [...]
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Stress test for computers: New sorting records

Impact: Computer Power    July 28, 2010
In the old days people used index cards to sort information such as names or addresses by alphabetical order. Have you ever sorted a thousand cards? Try sorting the information on 210 DVDs or 1,422 CDs – that’s how much information is contained in a terabyte (1000 gigabytes or one million megabytes). Obviously this is [...]
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