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May 21, 2008

Google Surpasses Supercomputer Community, Unnoticed?

Brough Turner, SVP, and CTO, NMS Communications

Recently EE Times carries a story about IBM's upcoming petaflop supercomputer, the Roadrunner, and how its designers are scrambling to run benchmarks in advance of the annual International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) being held June 17th-20th. It's an article about IBM, but it does mention competing supercomputers by Japanese vendors. However, it makes no mention of distributed computing projects like SETI@Home or, more importantly, the Google computing cluster.

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