catocom
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China Has World's Fastest Supercomputer
It'll only last until the warranty runs out in a year though.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/28/china-worlds-fastest-supercomputer/?test=latestnewsA leading Chinese research center has built the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of trillions of calculations per second, according to an industry announcement made Thursday -- underscoring the country's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
The Tianhe-1 machine housed at the National Center for Supercomputing in the northern port city of Tianjin is capable of sustained computing of 2.507 petaflops, the equivalent of 2,507 trillion calculations, per second.
It'll only last until the warranty runs out in a year though.
