Supercomputer
Feb 26 2008, Surya

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced the second most capable Ultrafast system in today’s world, the ‘Ranger’ supercomputer which can handle 504 teraflops. It however does not match up to the record held by IBM’s BlueGene/L which...

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