Comments on: IBM's Roadrunner set to smash supercomputing marks

Top500 list of speediest machines is now out, but upcoming IBM computer will top a quadrillion operations a second--more than double what we can do today.

[Dachi]

The PS3 Folding@home world record

Sort of on topic since we are talking about the cell processor. The PS3 Folding@home project set a wold record (1 petaFLOP) for a distributed computing project.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164107

[daveberry33]

Green Blue?

It would be interesting to ask how much power and cooling it requires (and how much CO2 this generates).

[GGGlen]

Trust me

Whatever the numbers are, they pale in comparison to the
greenhouse gasses exhaled by IBM's critics.

[taylorabc123]

Wow. Global warming is fake. It's a natural process before Ice ages. WOW!

[spothannah]

I wonder

Where's this going? In 5 years, 10, 15.... It seems to be increasing exponentially. Won't it soon be vertical? What happens then?

[heldertavares]

Why do not back to the stone age?Your father sould be shoot before met your mother!