Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked

Shadow Wrought writes "The Register is reporting on (alternate ZDNet article) the latest list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Top of the list is the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, with a benchmark performance of 35.86 Tflop/s. HP and IBM claim 159 and 158 of the systems respectively. I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?"

Comments

We're on the edge

[koh]

Is this what slashdot evolved into ? A top-500 list of supercomputers decided upon using dubious benchmarks that are not representative of computing power ?

Doesn't any of us remember that FLOPs, as MIPS, are Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed ?

I'm feeling a little deceived actually...

Re:Here's a thought

[agent dero]

As soon as you buy those 10 new G5's, i'll be glad to steal them from you.

Hmm

[Dark Lord Seth]

An article about supercomputers right after an article about software bloat... Is this a premonition of what we need in 2 years to run Windows Arcadia Pro along with Internet Explorer 7, Office Arcadia Pro and Windows Media Player 11?

Re:isn't the answer obvious?

[glenebob]

I *told* you, you weren't going to like it very much...