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Posted: Jun 09, 2008 - 12:22 PM Reply with quote Back to top
A supercomputer built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation 3 has set a new computing milestone.

The IBM machine, codenamed Roadrunner, has been shown to run at "petaflop speeds", the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per second.

full story at.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7443557.stm

But I did like this bit.

Quote:
It will be installed at a US government laboratory later this year where it will monitor the US nuclear stockpile.


Obvious a simple if else cronjob Wink.


If 100 nuclear Missles;

echo OK;

else

echo Bugger;

endif
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Posted: Jun 09, 2008 - 02:13 PM Reply with quote Back to top
Well they have to have something to play Doom on haven't they?
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