Alphacide or no, the fastest processor on the planet continues to garner sales and bragging rights.
In CY01 AlphaServer systems broke through the terascale boundary, delivering multi-TFLOPS systems to Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, the French Atomic Energy Commission, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, and Celera Genomics.
Omitted from this hit parade are the new Buffalo, NY Bioinformatics Center and some incremental AlphaServer sales at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, UK.
Compaq won seven of the world's most powerful supercomputing programs in 2000 and 2001. These include: the most powerful supercomputer in Hollywood (Fox Blue Sky Studios; 512 AlphaServer DS10Ls), the most powerful bioinformatics supercomputer in the US (Celera Genomics, belting out 1.3 TFlops), the largest European bioinformatics computer (GeneProt; 1420 AlphaServer DS10L systems delivering 1.9 TFlops), the most powerful Linux Supercomputer (Sandia National Labs; 1800 processors), the most powerful computer in Europe (French Atomic Commission, >5 TFlops), the most powerful university supercomputer in Australia (APAC: Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing), the most powerful Civilian supercomputer (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center TCS-1; conservatively rated at 6 TFlops), and last but not least, the most powerful supercomputer the world has ever known (ASCI Q at Los Alamos National Labs; which will deliver 30 TFlops by the end of the year and will scaling up to an incredible 100 Tflops during the next several years.)
So much for rumours of the death of Alpha. Further confounding the Armani Analysts and other alarmist nay-sayers,SKC can confirm the existence of scads of EV7-based Marvel systems in Marlboro, MA and elsewhere.
News source: The Inquirer - Alpha: Undead, and trashing the competition
