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Largest Privately Owned Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on from the beats-the-basement-beowulf-rack dept.

GORMUR writes "IBM has launched its Watson Blue Gene system, the largest privately owned supercompuer seen by the press. The super computer is described reaching a whopping 91.29 teraflops. IBM has plans on giving Academic researchers access to some computing time. Some more info can be found the IBM site. All this makes you wonder what other supercomputers are out there, not known to the press, and if it's time to increase the size of your private key and strengthen your encryption."

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  1. Re:NSA... by imr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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    The NSA is the single biggest employer of mathematicians in the world

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    but you can't buy advances in mathematics with money.

  2. Meanwhile by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    IBM couldn't market themselves out of a paper bag since they used Charlie Chaplin to represent their PC line of computers. No wonder Microsoft took a lot of the market away from them.

    Will this become the world's fastest privetly pwn3d Supercomputer once it is on the Internet? Got Unix exploits and script-kiddies?

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  3. Re:Nothing compared to Bluen Gene L by Gates82 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Here are the pictures

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