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Texas-Sized Supercomputer to Break Computing Power Record

Wired: Sun Microsystems announced today that its hardware will power the largest supercomputer ever built, weighing in with 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of memory, 1.7 terabytes of disk space, and 504 teraflops of performance.

Posted by Jenny Corrado on June 26, 2007 11:05 AM |

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