Yahoo m45

The M45 Project (or M45) is the name of a supercomputing 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.Yahoo! Research News [http://research.yahoo.com/node/1879 "Yahoo! Launches New Program to Advance Open-Source Software for Internet Computing"] dated November 12, 2007, retrieved on 2008-07-29]

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

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