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Published online 8 November 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041108-3

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A speedy recipe for supercomputing

World's second fastest computer built in just 120 days.

Building a supercomputer used to take a long time. Not any more, according to results from the TOP500 list, a record compiled by computer scientists in the United States and Germany that officially ranks the speed of these machines twice a year.

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