How to Upgrade a Supercomputer, 37,376 Chips at a Time
November 16th, 2009 link to (permalink)
The most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Cray XT5 — aka ‘Jaguar’ — is a computing monster with the ability to clock 1.759 petaflops (1,759 trillion) calculations per second. So just what exactly is inside this machine? About 37,376 AMD processors, to begin with.
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