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NEW YORK: IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights on Tuesday as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan. ``The fact that non-U.S. vendor like NEC had the fastest computer was seen as a big challenge for U.S. computer industry,'' said Horst Simon, director of the supercomputing centre at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California. ``That an American vendor and an American application has won back the No. 1 spot — that's the main significance of this.'' Earth Simulator can sustain speeds of 35.86 teraflops. IBM said its still-unfinished BlueGene/L System, named for its ability to model the folding of human proteins, can sustain speeds of 36 teraflops. A teraflop is 1 trillion calculations per second. — AP
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