The M45 Project (or M45) is the name of a cluster announced in November 2007 by Yahoo!.

According to Yahoo!, it has approximately 4,000 processors, three terabytes of memory, 1.5 petabytes of disks, and a peak performance of more than 27 trillion calculations per second (27 teraflops), placing it among the top 50 fastest supercomputers in the world.[1]

Name

M45 is named after the Messier catalog number of the constellation commonly known as the Pleiades.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Yahoo! Research News "Yahoo! Launches New Program to Advance Open-Source Software for Internet Computing" Archived 2007-12-21 at the Wayback Machine dated November 12, 2007, retrieved on 2008-07-29
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