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On Dec. 4, 1996, Intel set a world supercomputing record of building the first general purpose Supercomputer capable of solving a dense direct system of linear equations (called MP Linpack) at a sustained rate of over one Teraflop (a trillion floating point calculations per second.) The work was done on the Intel ASCI Option Red Supercomputer now at Sandia National Lab. Lots of news conferences were held, and clipping such as the one below was seen around the world.

Separately, ABC World News Tonight decided to do a cover story on Justin Rattner who was a visionary on the worlds first Teraflop supercomputer. In this clip, he was voted Man of the Week, and the announcer is talking about him. Nevertheless, if you look for the ABC logo on the right hand side, you see Greg Henry where I was monitoring the progress of that record breaking code (that I helped create).

AVI Clip from ABC World News Tonight

A loose description of Intel's MP Linpack records

MP Linpack quick description

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