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<div>Five years in the making, Japan's Marine Science and Technology Center on March 1 switched on its new, $400-million supercomputer. The massive machine, located in a specially built building in Yokohama, is called the Earth Simulator because its primary purpose is to run advanced simulations on climate, atmospheric, and other Earth sciences. Built by Japanese manufacturer NEC, the Earth Simulator achieved 35.86 trillions of floating point operations per second, or teraflops, on the common Linpack benchmark software. Performance on Linpack is the basis that a group of computer scientists use to measure the top 500 most powerful supercomputers on the planet. In fact, the top 500 group now ranks the Earth Simulator as the new No. 1 number-cruncher among the top 500.</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>