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Enterprise Systems Journal, January, 2000

Customer Share Grows 36 Percent

According to the TOP500 list of super-computers, IBM led all vendors with 141 systems -- all RS/6000 SPs -- up 36 percent from one year ago. SGI/Cray fell from the lead position, a spot it has owned for the entire seven-year history of the TOP500 list.

TOP500 List Leaders: 
 
      1998   1999   Growth 
 
IBM    104    141     36% 
SGI    183    133    -27% 
Sun    127    113    -11% 

The latest TOP500 List continues to underscore one important trend: the emerging number of supercomputers used in commercial applications. Nearly half of the systems on the TOP500 -- 246 -- are used for commercial applications. In the elite top 100, seven of the nine systems used for commercial computing are RS/6000 SPs running...

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