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Worlds fastest supercomputer runs linux

Submitted by Rachel Ayres on June 11, 2008 - 11:18am.

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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 »

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