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Setting world records has become a Sandia tradition...

Sandia has held the record for the world's fastest computer several times in the last decade. Of course, megaflops and teraflops are critical to scientific computing, but data management is also important for storing and retrieving the results. At this intersection between supercomputing and the larger business computing market, one application stands out--sorting.

On November 1, 1998, Sandia and Tandem Labs of Compaq broke the world's record for sorting a terabyte of data (completing this task in under 50 minutes).

Amy Behle, Business Development manager--U.S. Database market for MUSE Technologies, Inc., expects database companies to be interested because, "sorting is absolutely fundamental to database queries," and improved price/performance is commercially important. She continued, "for decision support, running more queries in the same time, or getting results faster, yields real business value."

Sandia and Compaq Computer Inc. are proud to announce this new record, a result from their two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA.

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