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"IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner " - Wikipedia

I had to look up what a petaflop is, and I still don't quite get it, but I think I 've grasped it enough to know that it's really fast (10 to the power of 15 flops - a calculator averages about 10 flops).  read more »

I was just scrolling through the eeepc forum looking at the discussion over the new 900 series eeepc.  What made me look at it, is why asus decided to put windows as an option, and since XP is being cut off in June this year (2008, believe the 30th to be exact), whether vista is going to be the "option".

this article was quoted in the discussion, on how to claim a windows tax refund from the vender of a new computer.  read more »