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Fujitsu breaks speed barrier

By Dominic Maher

Published: 20 April 1999 12:10 GMT

Fujitsu is claiming to have released the world's fastest CMOS (Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) supercomputer. Known as the VPP5000 series, the range will be marketed by German company, Siemens.

For use running demanding applications, the product will be aimed at markets such as aerospace engineering, disaster-proof construction and molecular physics.

The Japanese giant says the system has a peak performance of 9.6Gflop/s per processing element (PE) and a 4.9Tflop/s for a system with a maximum configuration of 512 PEs.

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