HomePage Feature November 17 2005

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Tokyo Tech to House One of the World's Top 10 Supercomputers

Attendees at the Supercomputing 2005 conference this week in Seattle learned that the Tokyo Institute of Technology will soon be home to one of the world's fastest supercomputers. The supercomputer will debut this coming spring, when it is expected to easily secure one of the highest 10 positions on the Top500 list. Read more.

(Photo of a supercomputer courtesy Sun Microsystems)

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