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<FONT FACE="arial, helvetica" SIZE="5"><B>Can you say 1,000 trillion ops/second?</B></FONT><BR>
By <i>Erich Luening</i>, <a href=''>Special to ZDNet</a><br>January 19, 2001 12:25 PM PT<BR>
<B>Compaq Computer is teaming with nuclear research facility Sandia National Laboratories and biotechnology company Celera Genomics to build what is anticipated to be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. </B><P>
The deal is expected to be announced Friday at a Department of Energy news conference in Washington. The supercomputer will be designed by the PC maker and Albuquerque, N.M.-based Sandia, and will be able to crunch 1,000 trillion operations a second, a Compaq representative said. That is about eight times the peak speed of the fastest existing computer. <P><zd-talkback>
Since it acquired Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment in 1998, <ZD-COMPANY ID="00027" TICKER="cpq">Compaq</ZD-COMPANY> has been boosting sales of its powerful servers and supercomputers as it pushes to diversify from its traditional PC business. <P>
Houston-based Compaq is also developing a supercomputer for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, which is expected to be able to perform 30 trillion operations per second once delivered in 2002. <P>
Rockville, Md.-based Celera was one of the key players in the Human Genome Project. The new supercomputer will help in further genomics research and the study of the structure, function and interactions of protein cells in humans and other organisms, according to a joint press release. <P>
Celera will provide applications that life science researchers can use in their work, such as further mapping of the human genome and other biological research. <P>
<B>All hail the supercomputer</B><BR>
Although terms of the agreement were not disclosed, the three companies plan to spend millions of dollars, employ hundreds of workers, and develop new technology as part of the effort, scheduled to be completed in 2004. <P>
At a press conference Friday at the Department of Energy to announce the new agreement, government officials, researchers and industry executives hailed the supercomputer as the next step in the Human Genome Project. <P>
With years of experience building computer models of nuclear explosions, Sandia will assist Celera in building software to analyze biological data. <P>
The supercomputer will help "to advance the knowledge from the human genome to improve human health," said Sandia President Paul Robinson. "Nothing beats the complexity of the Human Genome Project and the opportunities ahead. We look forward to working in these fields." <P>
For Compaq, the deal is an example of its ongoing push to add servers and other high-end computing products to its successful PC
business. <P><mustsee1>
"Compaq has been reforming itself into providing computer and Internet technology to a whole span of different fields," said Compaq Vice President Bill Blake. "Part of this move from the desktop to the supercomputer has been with these partners."<P><!--content stop-->
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