[Beowulf] China Wrests Supercomputer Title From U.S.

[Mark Hahn]

> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/technology/28compute.html

"wrests", bah.  you get exactly the rank on top500 that you pay for.

this url:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210223/Interconnect-pushed-China-super-to--1

mentions 160 Gbps as the speed of the interconnect, but also says 
"twice QDR".  afaik QDR is 40 GB before encoding, so Galaxy would 
be 80, not 160.

anyone have further details on what the "galaxy" interconnect is?