January 1996 / Cover Story

The World's Fastest Computers Parallel-Processing Architectures Processing Schemes The Shape of Things to Come The Many Become One SGI is Up to the Challenge Convex: Hypernode Power The Convex Hypernode Toroidal Interconnect Cray: Faster Than A Bottleneck Bullet CS6400 System Architecture The CS6400 IBM: The Blue Flash The SP2 Frame A 128-Node SP2 System Powerful Secret Identity SGI Power Challenge The World's Fastest Supercomputer (Now) The TFLOPS Topology Super Vision

Down-to-earth uses, near-earth prices, and astronomical speeds are catapulting a new generation of supercomputers out of the labs into the workplace - by Tom Thompson

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