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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/te...aflops.html?hp
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/index.shtml

Military Supercomputer Sets Record

By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: June 9, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

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“This is equivalent to the four-minute mile of supercomputing,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee who for several decades has tracked the performance of the fastest computers.

Also there's an old topic
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=25061

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The list is out
http://www.top500.org/lists/2008/06

[RudeCurve]

Processor PowerXCell 8i 3200 MHz (12.8 GFlops)

That's a really weak processor.

[pcchen]

I guess the "12.8GFLOPS" number is per SPE core, as the data list it as having 122400 cores but with only 12240 CELL chips.