The fastest computer in the world today was built last year. It's can run a 1 trillion calculations in a second (petaflop). Thank God that it's one of ours!
I just read on G4 TV's Blog:
By 2012, the government and IBM will have built Sequoia, a computer that's 20 times more powerful than that.
Um, that will be twenty trillion calculations in a second! 20 Petaflops!!!! That's insane. They are going to be using it mathematically model nuclear explosions and predict weather patterns! Again, thank God that is one of ours!
The specs on this things are as follows:
Sequoia
* 3,400 square feet
* 1.6 million processing cores
* 1.6 petabytes of memory
* 96 racks
* 98,304 computing nodes
* Uses 6 megawatts of power a year: Enough energy for 500 American homes!
I want one.
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