From owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat Dec 1 19:03:52 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9CC17A67 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 19:03:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422EB17A70 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 19:03:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6023) id 1157317A67; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 19:03:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D46517B13 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:17:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chi6-1.relay.mail.uu.net (chi6-1.relay.mail.uu.net [199.171.54.98]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCF317ADB for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:17:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from news.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de by chi6sosrv11.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.220.21]) id QQlrkb09684 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:17:35 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by news.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA03462 for bionet-biology-computational@moderators.isc.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:17:32 +0100 (MET) To: bionet-biology-computational@moderators.isc.org From: Alessandro Macri Newsgroups: bionet.biology.computational Subject: Re: Computing power; who's leading the charge? Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, University of Munich Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de 1007137051 3460 141.84.220.60 (30 Nov 2001 16:17:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@informatik.uni-muenchen.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 19:03:47 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk On 29 Nov 2001, Johnathan Green wrote: > What companies are still developing computers with teraflops of > computing power? The last signifcant one I heard of was something IBM > was doing but that was a few years ago? Anything new with this? The latest Top500-list was published a few days ago (www.top500.org). It counts seventeen installations reaching 1000 gflops or more. ciao -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alessandro Macri macri@informatik.uni-muenchen.de "panta rhei" (Heraklit) http://www.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~macri -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .