Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record

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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still en vogue?

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Is it still in vogue to request we all imagine we had a "beowulf cluster of blue gene suprtcomputers?"

I wish I was smart enough to have an actual use for this beast. If I were, I'd be able to figure out how to heck to pay the huge electric bill this would generate.