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NASA's Columbia Supercomputer Seizes Second Position in Top 500 Supercomputers, Outshining Earth Simulator with 51.87 Teraflops Performance
At the Supercomputing Conference 2004, the 24th Top 500 list confirmed that NASA's Columbia supercomputer has added another performance milestone for the acclaimed SGI Altix platform. With a sustained performance of 51.87 trillion calculations per second (teraflops) and peak performance of 60.96 teraflops across 10,240