With a peak performance of more than 6 teraflops, Cobalt will bring the total computing power at the NCSA to more than 35 teraflops and raise disk storage to 750 terabytes, according to the center. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently erected an Itanium 2 supercomputer with 4,096 processors. In March, the NCSA said it had an open proposal for a supercomputer but did not say which companies were in the running for the contract.
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