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A Minute with Nsort on a 32P NEC Windows Itanium2 Server (2004)  (Make Corrections)  
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Abstract: In March 2004, the Nsort# program was able to sort 34 GB of data (340,000,000 100-byte records) in 58 seconds on a 32 processor Itanium 2 NEC Express5800/1320Xd running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition. This set new records for the MinuteSort benchmark. The data was read from one input file at 1.4 GB/sec. The output file was created and written at 1.2 GB/sec. Both files resided on an NTFS file system on a striped logical volume consisting of 8 Eurologic 14-disc SAN blocs... (Update)

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@misc{ ordinal-minute,
  author = "Chris Nyberg Ordinal",
  title = "A Minute with Nsort on a 32P NEC Windows Itanium2 Server",
  url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/730402.html" }
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