[extropy-chat] 70 teraflops

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> For the fourth time in less than two months, a supercomputer speed
> record  has been claimed.
> 
> Energy Department officials said Nov. 4 that the agency's Blue Gene/L
> machine developed by IBM Corp. has hit processing speeds of 70.72
> teraflops using the Linpack 

Silicon Graphics CEO responds, "To quote IBM, 'you can't be number one forever.'"

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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