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DAS4 Performs Excellent on GRAPH500

At the yearly top conference on Supercomputing in Seattle (12-18 November) it was announced that the DAS-4 cluster computer of the VU Computer Science department scores an honourable 16th place in the new Graph500 list. The DAS-4 cluster is only topped by machines that have much more CPU power and memory available, which indicates that DAS-4 is a very efficient platform for research on graphs.

Traditionally twice a year the so-called TOP500 list is published, listing the latest supercomputers worldwide, ranking them according to their speed while performing operations on very large matrices. The TOP500 is thus
useful for benchmarking supercomputers built to excell in traditional fields of science and engineering where data is available in a highly structured form.

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