NEC has just announced a new world’s fastest supercomputer, the model SX-8. Just last month, IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L which (temporarily) took the top spot away from NEC.

NEC’s new machine performs at 65 trillion calculations per second, as compared to the 36.01 teraflops for IBM.

IBM is planning a souped-up version of the Blue Gene/L for 2005 availability which is expected to perform at 360 teraflops.

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