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Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Inside -really inside - one of the world's fastest computers
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| Yesterday I stood inside what is probably the world's third-most-powerful supercomputer - the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech. (I say "probably" because the testing won't be done till next week - the Department of Defense is using it right n |
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Sep 3, 2004 19:04:15 | | Author | USATODAY.com |
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