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It was a cluster of 20 Altix supercomputers each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors running Linux, and achieved sustained speed of 42. 7 trillion floating-point operations per second ( teraflops ), easily topping Japan's famed Earth Simulator's record of 35. 86 teraflops.
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About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.
The meat wagon, therefore, was not out in front of the house any more, but the cluster of squad cars was still there and there was a cop on the door downstairs to screen any comings and goings.
The camp was a cluster of aluminum bubbles, ringed with a spy web to alert the Earthmen to the approach of any being.
The second lunar excursion's primary objective was to visit Stone Mountain to climb up the slope of about 20 degrees to reach a cluster of five craters known as " Cinco Craters ".
This model was used in a cluster with one Aster ( with disk drives ) for the teacher, and eight disk less versions for the pupils.
During the past few centuries of detailed, scientific study of the Bronze Age, it has become clear that on the whole, the use of copper or bronze was only the most stable and therefore the most diagnostic part of a cluster of features marking the period.
The cluster was given its name by John Herschel.
Recently, the galactic cluster JKCS 041 was confirmed to be the most distant cluster of galaxies yet discovered.
Its status as a globular cluster was determined by James Dunlop in 1827.
In 1999, a nearby open cluster was discovered centered on the star η Chamaeleontis.
* The Casablanca Technopark is an information technology Business cluster complex located at Casablanca, and was inaugurated in October 2001.
The key addition was the concept of a cluster, CLU's type extension system and the root of the language's name ( CLUster ).
" Additionally, Diego Garcia was used as a storage section for US cluster bombs as a detour from UK parliamentary oversight.
The gravity of the visible galaxies in the cluster would be far too small for such fast orbits, so something extra was required.
Brockovich and Masry filed suit against the Beverly Hills Unified School District in 2003, in which the district was accused of harming the health and safety of its students by allowing a contractor to operate a cluster of oil wells on campus.
A cluster of villages was called a kafu, ruled by a farma.
Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.
BD + 36 3317, a white star in the young open cluster Stephenson 1, was discovered as a binary eclipsing system by Violat-Bordonau in 2008 ; its period is 4. 30216 days ; its other name is VSX J185422. 2 + 365107.
Combining the effects of a tripwire activated bounding fragmentation mine with a cluster bomb, it was devastating to massed attackers but required high maintenance due to the susceptibility of black powder to dampness.
The first true nebula, as distinct from a star cluster, was mentioned by the Arabic / Muslim astronomer, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, in his Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ).
In 1790, however, he discovered a star surrounded by nebulosity and concluded that this was a true nebulosity, rather than a more distant cluster.
A third category was added in 1912 when Vesto Slipher showed that the spectrum of the nebula that surrounded the star Merope matched the spectra of the Pleiades open cluster.
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The date was June 20, 1922.
( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.
That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.
When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).
The 10.3-cm observation of Sloanaker was made on May 20, 1958, using the 84-foot reflector at the Maryland Point Observatory of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.
The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.
On Feb. 12, 1959, purified corticotropin ( ACTH Gel ), 20 units daily intramuscularly, was started but had to be discontinued 3 weeks later because of excessive fluid retention.
It was September 20, 1960, in a lavishly decorated apartment littered with liquor bottles.
The King should expect no profit, and an advance of only 20 per cent above the cost in France, which would cover the expense of transportation and handling, was all he charged the traders.
Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.
The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan. 20.
McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.
Bernard Parrillo, 20, of 19 Fletcher Ave., Cranston, was admitted to Roger Williams Hospital shortly before 11:30 a.m. yesterday after a hunting accident in which a shotgun he was carrying discharged against his heel.
A heart attack when she was barely 20 put an end to the 10-hour daily practicing.
He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).
" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.
This arithmetic tool was based on the vigesimal system ( base 20 ).
More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.
It decays by emission of a α-particle to < sup > 237 </ sup > Np ; the half-life of this decay was first determined as 510 ± 20 years but then corrected to 432. 2 years.
) At the intercession of Moses, Aaron was saved from the plague which smote the people ( Deuteronomy 9: 20, Exodus 32: 35 ), although it was against Aaron ’ s tribe of Levi that the work of punitive vengeance was committed ( Exodus 32: 26 ).
Similarly in St Peter: " Christ .. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you " ( 1 Peter 1: 20 ), and " But the end of all things is at hand " ( 1 Peter 4: 7 ).
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