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.

Comments

Oh, oh yeah?

[Faust7]

The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer.

Cluster a billion TI-85s together and then we'll see who's collecting dust.

my switcher story

[caffeine_monkey]

I used to run an Intel-based supercomputer, but then one night, I was modelling a nuclear explosion on it, and all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the model just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good model of a nuclear explosion! I had to cram and remodel it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed model wasn't nearly as good, and I blame that Intel supercomputer for the fact that DARPA yanked our funding.

Re:Scant details on supercomputers...

[Jack Auf]

I was also wondering about OS's used on the Top 500. I really wish they'd include the OS in the list as well. What would the OS statistics look like, I wonder?

IBM: 31%
HP: 28%
Linux: 20%
Sun: 12%
Cray: 6%
Other: 2.8%
Apple: .2%
Microsoft: 0%

Err, or something like that.