NEW AMES-SGI SUPERCOMPUTER

A NASA-Silicon Graphics Inc. team has built and programmed a 256-processor supercomputer that is now being tested at Ames Research Center. It is named in honor of the late Joseph Steger, an Ames fluid dynamicist, and can execute the ``Overflow'' fluid dynamics code at 20.1 gigaflops, compared with 4...

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