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The way to think of a supercomputer is as a special-purpose device. Only with these devices can we perform this cutting-edge research.

Jack Dongarra

In November 1998, 8 systems appeared in the TOP500 list.

Rank	System	Procs	Memory(GB)	Rmax (GFlops)	Rpeak (GFlops)	Vendor
18	SX-4/128M4	128	N/A	244	256	NEC
89	SP PC604e 332 MHz	184	N/A	57.51	122.17	IBM
194	HPC 10000 333 MHz	60	N/A	32.27	39.96	Sun
211	HPC 10000 333 MHz	56	N/A	30.27	37.29	Sun
234	HPC 10000 333 MHz	52	N/A	28.32	34.632	Sun
366	SP PC604e 332 MHz	64	N/A	20.83	42.49	IBM
484	HPC 10000 333 MHz	32	N/A	17.91	21.31	Sun
485	HPC 10000 333 MHz	32	N/A	17.91	21.31	Sun