] MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
] Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) with NASA today
] confirmed that NASA's new Intel® Itanium® 2
] processor-based Columbia supercomputer is the most
] powerful computer in the world. Only days after NASA
] completed installation of Columbia -- and using just 16
] of Columbia's 20 installed systems -- the new
] supercomputer achieved sustained performance of 42.7
] trillion calculations per second (teraflops), eclipsing
] the performance of every supercomputer operating today.

So this was the October suprise of supercomputing; the expectations were much lower for this. Wow. SGI at #1? Itanium2? Huh.

NASA's Columbia Supercomputer Is World's Fastest