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  1. 500 Billion Very Specialized FLOPs

    Tech · Technology · · posted by timothy · from the oh-the-NSA-would-never-use-anything-like-this dept. · 89 comments
    sheckard writes: "ABC News is reporting about the world's fastest 'supercomputer,' but the catch is that it doesn't do much by itself. The GRAPE 6 supercomputer computes gravitational force, but needs to be hooked up to a normal PC. The PC does the accounting work, while the GRAPE 6 does the crunching." The giant pendulum of full-steam-ahead specialization vs. all-purpose flexibility knocks down another one of those tiny red pins ...