The fastest computer on Earth just getting a whole lot faster. According to the Top500 list (www.top500.org), IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer, which runs at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, has dramatically extended its computing power by achieving speeds of 280.6 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops), near double than its previous clock speed of 136.8-teraflop. Blue Gene/L is primarily used to simulate and evaluate the safety and security of the US nuclear weapons. Until 2004, Japan’s Earth Simulator had spent years ranked as the fastest computer in the world. It has a maximum speed of 35.86 teraflops.

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wow that's alot of speed! but how could they do such things! and in small sizes as well!! it's all in the nano technology... without it we would have been using computers in the size of a room! and recently many CPU's have been released to the market and they're really fast! the multi-core processors are going to have a huge impact on the hardware industry... but hopefully their prices would be acceptable so that anyone can make use of these amazing processors!

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