Computer Science
The Earth Simulator was listed as the fastest supercomputer in the world from 2002 to 2004. Be, founded by former Apple executive Jean Louis Gassée and a number of former Apple, NeXT and SUN employees, releases their only product – the BeBox. Using dual PowerPC 603 CPUs, and featuring a large variety of peripheral ports, the first devices were used for software development. While it did not sell well, the operating system, Be OS, retained a loyal following even after Be stopped producing hardware in 1997 after less than 2,000 machines were produced. Based on the Touchstone Delta computer Intel had built at Caltech, the Paragon is a parallel supercomputer that uses 2,048 Intel i860 processors. Intel's Touchstone Delta Supercomputer System Comes Online The factorial module does only one task; it returns the factorial of the value given. The calling module, combinations, sends the minimum information that factorial needs—one number. Functional independence is measured using two ...