Oak Ridge boasts fastest computer

[mercurial]

How fast is the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second, it would take 650 years to do what this machine can do in one day.

That makes the $100-million computer, nicknamed "Jaguar" by scientists, the fastest in the world for unclassified scientific research. At more than one quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, it is about 55 000 times faster than your typical PC.

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Dang. I wouldn't mind having one of those.

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

...but can it play Crysis @ Very High in Vista with 4xAA?

 

[charlie_82]

...but can it play Crysis @ Very High in Vista with 4xAA?

True.. it's just pointless!

 

[Ghost02]

...but can it play Crysis @ Very High in Vista with 4xAA?

I doubt it

 

[cerebus]

1.64 petaflops.

 

[Keeper]

I can still gobble up 2 pie's quicker than it can fully go through 1 pie calculation.