November 14, 2005
- The 26th TOP500 list of the world's highest-performance supercomputer installations is presented at the Supercomputing Conference (SC|05) in Seattle, Washington. The two top positions on the list are held by IBM-built Blue Gene/L systems, with no. 1 achieving a performance of more than 280 teraFLOPS—a doubling since the previous list, in June. (TOP500.Org)
- Sun Microsystems introduces its 8-core, 4-way multithreading microprocessor UltraSPARC T1 (formerly codenamed Niagara), which is the general-purpose CPU with the highest number of cores on a single chip to date. The T1 will consume about 70 watts of power, less than half that of other multicore processors. (eWEEK.com)
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