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Japan's New Supercomputing Toy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Yes.... by JoeLinux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But imagine a a beowulf cluster of these.

    *sigh* I miss when that was popular...I was in college, dating a total bitch, living off of ramen, playing CS until my grades started to suffer, and getting four hours of sleep a night...good times, good times.

  2. Beowulf Cluster by Nazmun · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these. And also does this run linux?!?!?

    There, i've said it...you know someone would have!

    --
    Hmmm... Pie...
  3. I for one... by JDSalinger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome our Japanese Supercomputing Toy overlord! I also welcome Godzilla to fight this Supercomputer in an epic battle (Pictures of the beast can be found at a random website http://www.xofacto.com/justin20/shinzen-godzilla-6 2.jpg). I also welcome females back to my crib.