Fastest TOP500 cluster at NCSA and ShellHeidelberg 21 July 2001 The NCSA and the Shell Linux clusters are the fastest clusters in the world, according to the latest edition of the Top500 supercomputers list. The cluster of 512 dual-processor Pentium III IBM eServer x330 thin servers ranked 30th overall on the list with a sustained performance level of 594 Gflop/s and a peak performance level of just over 1 Tflop/s. An identical cluster owned by Shell Oil Company ranked at 31.
NCSA began setting up the Pentium III cluster, dubbed Platinum, in February, and the cluster was operational just in time to be considered for the June TOP500 list. NCSA will set up a second 1 Tflop/s cluster based on Intel's new Itanium processor in July. For the complete TOP500 list, see http://www.top500.org/.
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