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IBM Retakes Fastest Supercomputer Title

Posted by michael on from the more-power dept.

dshaw858 writes "BBC News reports that IBM has unveiled its new Blue Gene/L machine. The Blue Gene project already has two of the top ten supercomputers in the world. Big news for IBM! I wonder what great things they can calculate in just seconds now... maybe I should get a stronger PGP key."

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  1. If you were to RFTA before submitting... by nwbvt · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "I wonder what great things they can calculate in just seconds now... maybe I should get a stronger PGP key."

    It is quite clear what these computers are doing. They are designed to compute the folding patterns of protein molecules, a task which requires immense computational power.

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