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Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the even-faster dept.

DIY News writes "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer Thursday and announced it's broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. The 65,536-processor machine can sustain 280.6 teraflops. That's the top end of the range IBM forecast and more than twice the previous Blue Gene/L record of 136.8 teraflops, set when only half the machine was installed."

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  1. hmmm by jigjigga · · Score: 5, Insightful

    lets put folding@home (http://folding.stanford.edu/) on that mother!

    1. Re:hmmm by Silverstrike · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because, when you're in agony dying of radiation poisoning, its really going to make your day a lot better to be assured that somewhere else in the world another person, equally as removed from the political context of the nuclear conflict as you are, will be in just as much agony as you are.

      Now, just maybe, the presence of these weapons can be called a deterant, so its possible that possessing them is a necessary evil. However, to be quite honest, if we ever "need" them -- I really do hope they fail to work.