Wednesday, April 6, 2011

China has 2 of the 3 Fastest Supercomputers in the Galaxy

The pinnacle of computer technology is the supercomputer.  Never mind gaming rigs like the Alienware Area 51, if one of these babies were ever used for gaming, they'd blow all competition out of their  water cooled existence. These systems are powerful enough that they have their own unit of measurement for their processing speed - the petaFLOPSFLoating point OPerations per Second - odd name, but you can't deny the power it represents - trillions to quadrillions of operations every nanosecond.  [Just so we don't get in trouble with the noids that know, a FLOPS is not an actual measured unit. an expression like {}_{1\,\mathrm{flops}} is actually interpreted as {}_{f_{flop} = 1\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\,\Leftrightarrow\, n_{flops} = 1}]  READ MORE


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