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7. Tera-10 - Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique

Built by Bull SA for France’s Atomic Energy Commision (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique), the Tera-10 is currently ranked number 7 on the Top 500 list of fastest computers in the world.

The Tera-10 consists of 544 of Bull’s NovaScale 6160 servers with each one featuring eight Dual-Core Intel Itanium processors and runs at about 42.9 Teraflops. It uses Linux as an operating system and is used for nuclear testing simulations.

6. Thunderbird - Sandia National Laboratories

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Crystal Socha, 26, of Augusta, Kan., shows her American Paint horse, Summer, during the 11th annual EquiFest of Kansas at the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. Eleven-year-old Summer holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the longest tail on a horse, at twelve feet, six inches.

“The tail and mane are not fake. Summer does not have tail extensions.”

While other horses can walk about without a retinue, Summer Breeze’s black-and-white tail is so long that one of her owners has to follow behind, carrying it like a bride’s train

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