Sun Microsystems announced that one of the largest technical universities in Europe has selected Sun Fire 6800 servers running the Solaris operating system for a major supercomputing project. The University of Technology at Aachen, Germany, will use the system for large computational fluid dynamics simulations and other applications. The system will have a capacity of 2.3 trillion calculations per second when completed next year.
Sun wins European supercomputer project
Sun Microsystems announced that one of the largest technical universities in Europe has selected Sun Fire 6800 servers running the Solaris operating system for a major supercomputing project. The University of Technology at Aachen, Germany, will use the system for large computational fluid dynamics simulations and other applications. The system will have a capacity of 2.3 trillion calculations per second when completed next year.
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