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THIS DAY IN HISTORY (TDIH)
DEC-10 <<<< DEC-11 >>>> DEC-12
LOCATION:
Beaverton, OR USA
WHAT HAPPENED:
A computer designed by both Intel and the United States Department of
Energy broke the "1-trillion-mathematical-operations-per-second" threshold
today.
Which means,in layman's terms, that in 15 seconds it went through the same amount of mathematical operations that would take the average desktop computer around two days to process.
On December 11th, after Intel essentially wired together 7,264 high-end Pentium processors using a technique called "massively parallel computing," the computer was started up. The machine, which was housed in 57 refrigerator-sized cabinets at an Intel facility in Oregon, performed 6.4 quadrillion (6,400,000,000,000,000) calculations in one hour and 20 minutes.
It took Intel and the United States Department of Energy almost two years of software and hardware development to accomplish the feat.
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LAST UPDATED: November 20, 2011