Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Civilian Supercomputer Shatters Competition

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/civilian-supercomputer-shatters-nuke-simulators-speed-record/
The retooled Jaguar supercomputer blew away the competition on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers in the world, clocking an incredible 1.759 petaflops — 1,759 trillion calculations per second.

“From the early 80s it may be close to a million fold improvement in computational performance,” Hack said.

Imagine in 30 years, when computational performance may be close to a trillion fold improvement over our current technology...

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