Computer said to be the fastest: Thinking Machines reclaiming its title

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Thinking Machines Inc, Cambridge, MA, introduces a supercomputer that the company says is the world's fastest. The new computer, which incorporates a 'massively parallel' style of architecture, can perform 9.03 billion mathematical operations in one second. It is twice as fast as Thinking Machines' own preceding model and is slightly faster than an Intel Touchstone Delta supercomputer, which can do 8.6 billion calculations in one second. The market for massively parallel systems is still small, but it is expected to grow rapidly. According to Smaby Group, a market research firm, the total supercomputer market is about $1.1 billion worldwide, and the part represented by parallel systems amounts to about $160 million.

Computer industry, Product information, Product introduction, Parallel processing, product announcement, Performance Measurement, Thinking Machines Corp., Massive Parallelism, Thinking Machines Connection Machine CM-2 (Supercomputer)

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Fujitsu drops offer on computer; U.S. opposition forces Japanese company to cancel its donation

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Fujitsu Ltd withdraws an offer to donate a supercomputer to an international consortium known as the Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Evaluation, which does research at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. Fujitsu's action comes in response to American political pressures. US government officials and computer industry executives say that Japan donates powerful computers or sells such machines at large discounts to break into American markets. Apparently US Congressmen view such a strategy as illegitimate competition. Supercomputers are used by climate researchers to do simulations of complex phenomena, studying such problems as global warming and atmospheric pollution.

Land, mineral, wildlife conservation, Research, United States, Japan, International aspects, Japanese foreign relations, United States foreign relations, International competition (Economics), Fujitsu Ltd., Consortia, Marketing Strategy, Japanese Competition, Donation, Consortium, Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Evaluation, United States. National Center for Atmospheric Research

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