Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board

A decade ago, it took about 10,000 of Intel's Pentium Pro processors to achieve the same level of performance. This is the ASCI Red supercomputer developed at Sandia National Laboratories. It was the first supercomputer to hit a teraflop of performance, but needed 104 cabinets and more than 2,500 square feet of floor space to store those cabinets. Intel's research chip would fit on your fingernail.

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