World's fastest computer

[dissentowner]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/f....ap/index.html

[GoinAllTheWay]

to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions.

Why am I not suprised?

[Azure]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Why am I not suprised?

But officials said the computer also could have a wide range of other applications in civilian engineering, medicine and science, from developing biofuels and designing more fuel-efficient cars to finding drug therapies and providing services to the financial industry.

[Azure]

I think the Alberta government should use the $11.6b dollar surplus and buy me one of these.

Or just buy them and give them to the all the Universities in Canada.

[llama64]

... yes, but can it run Vista?

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Azure

Fair enough but it's kinda sad that all the good stuff is going to be very secondary. I think a vast majority of it's time will be spent on the primary use.

[iggypop]

To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on Earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.

I my math right? Does that make it 97 Billion times faster than a hand-held computer? That's insane

[keratosis]

"This just in"
"World fastest computer done in by viruses"
"Lab tech said"
"Just wanted to see if I could download Jenna faster"

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by iggypop

I my math right? Does that make it 97 Billion times faster than a hand-held computer? That's insane

6 billion people working 365 days a year for 46 years to the equivalent of one day's work.

To me, that seems to make it 604,440 billion times faster. Whatever that computes to in scientific notation. 6.044 * 10 ^ 14 or something?

It's fast.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Why am I not suprised?

Not sure, you shouldnt be. It was created by guys at Los Alamos and IBM, hmmm what do they do at Los Alamos Research Station - I wonder...

Anyone with 100mil can build one of these bad boys and use it for whatever they wanted.

[onetwo_threefour]

Nuclear Experiments ?!?!?

HULK SMASH!!!!

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Originally Posted by llama64

... yes, but can it run Vista?

Sure...but then it runs at 486 speeds