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Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the renders-a-million-tentacles-a-minute dept.

slashthedot writes "Japan has built the fastest supercomputer in the world. While the BlueGene/L contains 130,000 processors, Japan has managed to create the first Petaflop supercomputer, called MDGrape-3, with just 4808 chips, and it cost just $9 million to develop."

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  1. Re:Efficiency by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, in the case of SETI@Home, it wouldn't be cheaper to run on the supercomputer - SETI isn't paying for the power to run all those CPUs out there in people's homes and offices.

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