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Japan's New Supercomputing Toy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 1, 2006 @05:13AM from the i'll-take-two dept.

deman1985 writes "As reported by UPI, Japan has unveiled their fastest supercomputer yet. Assembled from Hitachi and IBM components, the new system sports total performance around 59 trillion calculations per second and comes at a cool 5-year lease price of $30 million. Pictures of the beast can be found at Mainichi Daily News."

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FP by Enzero · 2006-03-01 05:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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Re:And Yet by PishiGorbeh · 2006-03-01 05:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I might run Vista but is it fast enough to run Vista with Areo?
Re:Beowulf Cluster by Anonymous+Rockstar · 2006-03-01 05:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

and don't forget the ever popular... Now I can run Longhorn/Vista.

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PS3 by dasare1503 · 2006-03-01 05:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What they don't tell you is that the PlayStation 3 is expected to have the power of TWO of these babies. Also, it will model the weather in your neighborhood down to the atomic molecule scale, WHILE putting out fifteenteen HD video streams. Sony PS3 department was heard to say "We are not competing against that new supercomputer. It is too slow."