Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd

An anonymous reader noted that according to Wired, it will be announced officially on Monday the Big Mac supercomputer is the third-fastest super-computer. The article also talks about some of the amazing supercomputers in the planning stages. The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer.

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Re:Check the #5 and #6

[lederhosen]

Also, the VirginiaTech cluster is the only "self-made" supercomputer in the Top50

And I guess the only one not using ECC memory. This is a *major* problem. Doing computations on many nodes during a long period *will* cause memory errors. This of course is both cheeper and also a bit faster (ECC has a performance hit). You will though not be able to do long computations. And short comutations must be run at least two times in order to check the results