Terafloppers promise engineering revolution

摘要

Washington, DC—Engineering will never be the same now that ultra-computers—with their mind-boggling computational speeds—are here. So predict the people who run Option Red, the world's fastest computer. Option Red takes up about 1,600 sq ft of a building at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. More than any other laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia is oriented toward engineering research. Capable of performing 1.8 teraflops, or 1.8 trillion floating-point operations per second, Option Red last December became the first "teraflopper."