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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. What's happened to the moderation system??? by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have we had another moderation system failure... the number of posts making it to my +3 browsing has dropped dramatically in the last two days... I'm expecting there to be almost minimal moderation after today and it to be a general trollfest again by Friday...

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  2. Like the name... KEK by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, South Korea unveiled its new supercomputer: KEKEKE ^____^

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