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Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-mips dept.

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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  1. What's the difference? by mindstrm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I mean, I understand reasonably well the benchmarks used... but my question is this:

    In the past, we always looked to the DoE or DoD for who had the fastest computers... they had stuff we could only dream of.. huge, fast clusters of funky computers we've never heard of.

    Now, a university built one out of macs... and it competes with the same benchmarks.

    What I wonder is, are there applications the old-style supercomputers are still better at, or has technology simply advanced since then? (Things like 10gig ethernet and ghz processors and memory busses, etc)... have we simply surpassed them? Don't just feed me some line about I/O either....