Nasa’s Columbia Supercomputer
Nasa and SGI just announced that the newly created Columbia Supercomputer is the worlds fastest, hitting 42.7 teraflops on the LINPACK performance tests. This beats the previous record, held by Japan’s Earth Simulator Supercomputer, of 35.86 teraflops. The new Columbia Supercomputer consists of 10240 Itanium 2 CPUs which live in 20 interconnected SGI Altix systems. And, of course, the system is running Linux 
Slashdot and The Register are both carrying announcements of the success. You can also read the official press release from SGI by clicking here or find out more information on the new supercomputer by going to this SGI site.
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