Compaq and EBS Break Billion Comparison-per-Second Barrier in 1 GHz Alpha Demo

Jul 23, 2001

COPENHAGEN, July 23 - Compaq Computer and Edinburgh Biocomputing Systems said Monday they had successfully achieved one billion comparisons per second running the Smith-Waterman algorithm on a single 1 GHz Alpha processor.

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