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	Sandia National Laboratories - News Releases
		The one-teraflops demonstration was achieved using 7,264 Pentium Pro processors in 57 cabinets.
		Computers that powerful are needed to simulate the complex 3-D physics involved in nuclear-weapon performance, and to accurately predict the degradation of nuclear weapons components as they age in the stockpile.
		"Teraflops computing and ASCI provide an extraordinary opportunity for the three weapons laboratories in DOE to work together on behalf of the science-based stockpile stewardship program," said Sandia Director C. Paul Robinson.
	www.sandia.gov /media/teraflop.htm (863 words)

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		The Teraflops Research Chip is the latest development from the Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research Program.
		Although not a general purpose computing device, this Teraflops Research Chip delivers 1.0 teraflops of performance and 1.6 terabits aggregate core to core communication bandwidth, while dissipating only 62W.
		This Teraflops Research Chip is one important example of how the Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research Program aims to change the future through constant hardware and software innovation.
	techresearch.intel.com /articles/Tera-Scale/1449.htm (603 words)

	VIRTUAL PRESS KIT – Teraflops Research Chip
		A closer look at the Teraflops wafer containing the Intel Teraflops Research Chip, the first programmable chip to deliver more than one trillion mathematical calculations per second (1 Teraflops) of performance.
		The Intel Teraflops Research Chip uses 80 cores, each containing two programmable floating point engines—the most ever to be integrated on a single chip.
		Close-up of an Intel Teraflops Research Chip wafer taken partway through the fabrication process to expose the cores.
	www.intel.com /pressroom/kits/Teraflops/index.htm (353 words)

	ORNL Jaguar supercomputer surpasses 50 teraflops
		Oak Ridge National Laboratory has increased computing power of its Cray supercomputing system (shown here) to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second, placing it among the most powerful open scientific systems in the world.
		An upgrade to the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the most powerful supercomputer available for general scientific research in the United States, has increased the system's computing power to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second.
		DOE's Leadership Computing Facility is on a path to exceed 100 teraflops by the end of this year and to reach a petaflop, or 1 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, by 2009.
	www.physorg.com /news75738303.html (584 words)

	Teraflops chip points to future
		The Teraflops chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm.
		The first time teraflop performance was achieved was 11 years ago on the ASCI Red Supercomputer built by Intel for the Sandia National Laboratory.
		The Teraflops chip uses less electricity than many current high-end processors, making the design attractive for use in home computers.
	www.worldhealth.net /p/teraflops-chip-points-to-future-2007-02-13.html (682 words)

	Teraflops Supercomputer Shows Sandia Expertise In Advanced Software Applications
		It would take someone operating a hand- held calculator about 30,000 years to calculate a problem the teraflops computer could compute in one second.
		"Teraflops computing and ASCI provide an extraordinary opportunity for the three weapons laboratories in DOE to work together on behalf of the science- based stockpile stewardship program," said Sandia Director C. Paul Robinson.
		Sandia is a multiprogram Department of Energy laboratory, operated by a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. With main facilities in Albuquerque and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has broad-based research and development programs contributing to national defense, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1996-12/SNL-TSSS-161296.php (845 words)

	What is a teraflop? - Knowledge Base
		A teraflop is one trillion floating point operations per second.
		Computer vendors and computer resource providers typically list the computing performance of their systems in terms of the number of gigaflops (million floating point operations per second) or teraflops achieved on standard benchmark programs, such as the LINPACK DP, TPP and HPC benchmarks, and the SPEC integer and floating point benchmarks.
		The theoretical peak computing capacity is obtained by multiplying the number of processors by the clock speed of the processor by the number of floating point operations per second that processor type is capable of performing.
	kb.iu.edu /data/apeq.html (247 words)

	ZDNet India > Insight > hardware > Intel India co-develops teraflops research chip
		The engineering team of IIDC contributed about 50 percent of the work consisting of logic, circuit and physical design, while the Oregon centre undertook integration and fabrication of the chip at the company's fab in Ireland.
		The teraflops chip also features a mesh-like network-on-a-chip architecture for super-high performance between the cores and moving terabits of data per second inside the chip.
		Incidentally, the 80-core teraflop chip is a big leap in frontier technology as against the first teraflops performance achieved over a decade ago on the ASCI Red Supercomputer built by Intel for the Sandia national laboratory in the US.
	www.zdnetindia.com /news/hardware/stories/172389.html (554 words)

	IBM, U. of Texas Designing Morphable Teraflops Chip
		The University of Texas at Austin and IBM Research are tag teaming on a radical new design for a processor that could ultimately pack as much as a teraflops of computing power onto a single chip by 2010.
		Given that the target clock speed of the TRIPS chip in 2010 is 10GHz, which is 20 times the clock speed of the prototype, just the ramp up in clock speed alone would make a four-core TRIPS processor capable of doing 640 gigaflops (in a perfectly linear universe).
		This project is akin to the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) undertaken by the U.S. Department of Energy to drive supercomputing technology from the hundreds of gigaflops to the hundreds of teraflops level in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /ftp/pub/dburger/press/computer_business-8.27.03.html (1018 words)

	Teraflops To Go
		The entry point is one rack, and this is tested to scale to an integrated solution of 100 Teraflops (peak), again, all delivered fully integrated from Sun.
		To request more information on Sun's Teraflop Pack, use our feedback form.
		This must be in the range 1 to 100 Tflops, and represents the peak floating point performance that you need.
	www.sun.com /servers/hpc/calc.jsp (716 words)

	ScienceDaily: Virginia Tech Announces Its Rebuilt System X Achieves 12.25 Teraflops
		"This new number is an increase of almost two teraflops over the original System X," said Hassan Aref, dean of Virginia Tech's College of Engineering.
		After proving the technology worked, Virginia Tech moved to the Xserve G5 cluster due to its server optimized architecture, computing power per unit density, and ground-breaking performance and innovative management tools.
		The original System X operated at 10.28 teraflops for the official records, but its peak theoretical performance was rated at 17.7 teraflops.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/10/041027142037.htm (1033 words)

	Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop - Statistics and Benchmarking
		The big drop off in TeraFLOPs is due to the transition between equations at 0.2255 angle range.
		TeraFLOPs are the total amount of calculations needed to complete a work unit.
		Luckily, there is a way to relate the SETI work unit run times to the amount of TeraFLOPs needed to complete those work units.
	www.teamlambchop.com /tips/v3time.htm (1631 words)

	Intel India co-develops teraflops research chip - Printer Friendly Page - Sci/Tech - Telugu Portal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The engineering team of IIDC contributed about 50 percent of the work consisting of logic, circuit and physical design, while the Oregon centre undertook integration and fabrication of the chip at the company's fab in Ireland.
		The teraflops chip also features a mesh-like network-on-a-chip architecture for super-high performance between the cores and moving terabits of data per second inside the chip.
		Incidentally, the 80-core teraflop chip is a big leap in frontier technology as against the first teraflops performance achieved over a decade ago on the ASCI Red Supercomputer built by Intel for the Sandia national laboratory in the US.
	www.teluguportal.net /modules/news/print.php?storyid=33040 (547 words)

	CS 3604 Assignment 2: Supercomputers, Spring 1997
		According to a November 11, 1996 announcement by Cray Research, a 2,048-processor CRAY T3E-900 (TM) broke the world record for a general-purpose supercomputer with an incredible 1.8 teraflops peak performance.
		VPP700 peaks at 0.5 teraflops, and the Hitachi
		There are three primary limits to performance at the supercomputer level: individual processor speed, the overhead involved in making large numbers of processors work together on a single task, and the input/output speed between processors and between processors and memory.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/SUPERCOM.Calle.HTML (2038 words)

	Real World Technologies - ISSCC 2007: Intel's Teraflops Design
		One element of this research, a project code-named Polaris, is a chip that delivers over a teraflop of performance.
		The first silicon prototype of this Teraflops chip was presented at ISSCC 2007 by members of the design team.
		The main goals for this project are to explore various options for clock distribution, interprocessor communications, power management and general design philosophy.
	realworldtech.com /page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT040307000414 (338 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Supercomputer breaks speed record
		The IBM Blue Gene/L is only a prototype and is one 5th the speed of the full version, due to be completed for the Livermore labs in 2005.
		Its peak theoretical performance is expected to be 360 teraflops, and will fit into 64 full racks.
		The Linux-based machine was reported to have reached a top speed of 42.7 teraflops in October.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3983131.stm (784 words)

	Question about the TeraFLOPs of each "enhanced" WU
		From the info SETI has given in the link on the home page, the TeraFLOPS for each WU will be different, depending on the type of data contained in each WU...
		The old version made an estimate of TeraFLOPS needed to complete a WU, based on benchmarks taken when the application is opened (take a look under "messages" on the tool bar).
		Apparently, the enhanced setiathome counts TeraFlops directly, instead of testing how much work a CPU can do in a second, and multiplying it by the time taken to complete a WU.
	setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu /sah/forum_thread.php?id=30544 (398 words)

	Intel details teraflops-capable chip - Boston.com
		The world's biggest chipmaker has developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops, the company said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007.
		It accomplishes this feat while consuming 62 watts of power when the chip is running at a frequency of 3.16 gigahertz.
		The world's biggest chipmaker said Sunday it developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops.
	www.boston.com /business/technology/articles/2007/02/11/intel_details_teraflops_capable_chip (654 words)

	National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: Archives
		The Scientific Computing Group at SDSC works with these friendly users, making appropriate adjustments to system configurations in response to problems that may be encountered while refining the users' codes for the new machine.
		The full teraflops system is expected to arrive by the end of this year.
		According to Giri Chukkapalli of the Scientific Computing Group, Abraham's goal is to simulate propagation with one billion atoms, for which the power of the teraflops machine is necessary.
	www.npaci.edu /online/v3.19/teraflops.html (466 words)

	Intel Touts Teraflops Potential Of 80-Core Processor Prototype -- InformationWeek
		The chip giant will disclose technical details on its 80-core Teraflops research processor at a chip conference in San Francisco this week.
		In a unusual bout of Sunday newsmaking, Intel today issued a press release announcing that its researchers have developed what the chip giant is billing as the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from 80-core chip.
		Performance-wise, it characterized the 80-core device as supporting teraflops performance while dissipating less than 100 W of power.
	www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197005082&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All (408 words)

	Intel Wins Teraflops Race, Cray Begs to Differ -
		In a press conference Monday that at times verged on the bizarre, Intel trotted out US Department of Energy secretary Hazel O'Leary to announce a supercomputing "milestone" that is by and large a technology already commercially available from competitor Cray Research.
		O'Leary and Intel executive vice president Craig Barrett announced that the Intel Red Project had, on 11 December, become the fastest computer in the world and the first to achieve teraflops processing power, or one trillion operations per second.
		In October, the DOE awarded Cray a $110.5-million project for a system performing at an aggregate level of three teraflops.
	www.wired.com /science/discoveries/news/1996/12/1030 (473 words)

	TV sized Blue Gene delivers teraflops in a box
		IBM said the Blue Gene it's built, which is a small scale prototype of a machine called Blue Gene L, takes a half rack of space amounting to one cubic metre.
		The prototype is a 1/20th the physical size of existing machines with similar power such as Linux clusters, IBM claimed.
		When the full blown version of Blue Gene/L is released, it's going to trot along at around 360 teraflops and Wendy M. Grossman and Ashlee Vance will be interested to note will occupy half the space of a tennis court, making it somewhat difficult to bat balls about, we reckon.
	theinquirer.org /?article=12666 (231 words)

	That's a Lot of Teraflops - Technology - RedOrbit
		As a result, we created a new environment that allows the user to run application A on the Linux cluster, application B on Cell processors.
		A Linux cluster comes at 75 teraflops, making it third- or fouth-fastest in the world today.
		We are not going to see 360 teraflops in a desktop anytime in your lifetime, your children's, and your grandchildren's lifetime.
	www.redorbit.com /news/technology/720342/thats_a_lot_of_teraflops/index.html?source=r_technology (1410 words)

	Intel processor hits 2 teraflops in demo \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2007-04-17 \| By Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service
		A first-run of the processor reached 1 teraflop and used 46 watts.
		The 80 core chip, which was just the size of a fingernail, hit a computing speed of 1.81 teraflops.
		Intel used the demonstration on Tuesday to reinforce one of IDF's main themes: that it is and intends to remain the chip speed and technology leader as die size continues to shrink.
	www.infoworld.com /article/07/04/17/HNintel2teraflops_1.html?PROCESSORS (668 words)

	Beijing IDF 07: Penryn, Teraflops and Skulltrail
		You can expect them to hit at least 2 teraflops however, thanks to revisions of the chip.
		On the topic of teraflops, Intel also announced Project Larrabee, which at this point is difficult to decipher.
		They did not disclose much information about it at all, but from what we could gather it will be marketed towards agencies that would benefit from teraflop operations without devoting an entire room to it.
	techgage.com /article/beijing_idf_07_penryn_teraflops_and_skulltrail (959 words)

	Breaking News--Top500 Supers List Dominated by Teraflops-Class Machines
		Now having a machine in the teraflops class, if the latest ranking of the Top 500 supercomputers is a measure, is not really a very big deal at all, unless you have to program it, cool it, or pay for the electric bill.
		While the Top 500 list, which is based on Linpack Fortran benchmarks, is by no means the only or the best way of measuring the performance of supercomputers, the Linpack benchmark was the first widely accepted means of gauging the power of workstations, clusters, vector machines, parallel supercomputers and a whole host of hybrid architectures.
		The BlueGene/L DD1 machine is rated at 11.7 teraflops with 8,192 processors that are tightly packed because they have such low clock speeds; this machine will in 2005 be boosted to about 64 peak teraflops of power as it is installed at LLNL.
	www.itjungle.com /breaking/bn062204-story01.html (1051 words)

	Computer Science: teraflops
		A teraFLOPS (TFLOPS) is equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
		Finally with reference to your 12 teraFLOPS average is a pretty fast (FPU home computer Floating point unit or processor inside the computer).
		I believe it is uncommon to see a teraFLOPS used in a home computer simply because of the speed, etc. Now they could be used on 'number' crunching computers used at NASA.
	en.allexperts.com /q/Computer-Science-3197/teraflops.htm (356 words)

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		The supercomputer will perform at a peak speed of 10 teraflops, or 10 trillion mathematical operations per second, Turek said.
		A person with a calculator would need 8 million years to finish calculations the supercomputer can make in one second, he said.
		The Planning Commission has released Rs 43 crore, out of which, IGIB has spent one-third to purchase a four teraflop HP cluster supercomputer earlier this month.
	www.lycos.com /info/supercomputer--teraflops.html (182 words)

	MacNN \| Print: Xserve G5 cluster achieves 12.25 teraflops
		Virginia Tech today announced that the rebuilt System X, its supercomputer cluster now built from 1,100 Xserve G5s, is now operating at 12.25 teraflops, an increase of nearly 2 teraflops over the previous official record of 10.28 teraflops.
		Virginia Tech says the system became the fastest supercomputer at any academic institution last November and that the institution will "learn of its new ranking when the list is unveiled in November of this year at SuperComputing 2004 in Pittsburgh." Last year "Big Mac" ranked third among the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.
		The original System X operated at 10.28 teraflops for the official records; however, its peak theoretical performance was rated at 17.7 teraflops.
	www.macnn.com /print/26735 (439 words)

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