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Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked

Posted by simoniker on from the my-zx-80-came-in-501st dept.

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?"

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  1. We're on the edge by koh · · Score: 1, Troll

    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...

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  2. Re:isn't the answer obvious? by glenebob · · Score: 1, Troll

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