[Dexsal]

The Philippine STAR 11/18/2004.

The fastest known physical action of a living thing is that of a small insect called a midge. It beats its wings at a rate of 57,000 times per minute or 950 per second. But when it gets nervous, this number can rise to over 2,000 beats per second. In Fred Flintstone’s Bedrock, the midge’s nervous wing-flapping may be its best bet at automating its world to the max. In our current world of nanotechnology and supercomputers, we have reached the tera-speed, i.e., in the trillions of calculations per second (teraflops), from the first supercomputer in 1976 called Cray 1, which was capable of only 80 million calculations per second (megaflops). IBM has just announced that it has achieved for its Blue Gene/L computer the speed of 70.76 teraflops. Blue Gene/L is said to be only a hundredth of the size of and requiring only 28th of the power per computation of Japan’s Earth Simulator, the former record-holder. IBM intends for Blue Gene/L to even top its own current prototype speed by next year.

Supercomputers are designed to handle massive amounts of information for specific purposes. The other supercomputers that ranked top in terms of speed are Columbia, USA, 51.87 Tflops; Earth Simulator, Japan, 35.86 TFlops; MareNostrum, Spain, 20.53 Tflops; and Thunder, USA, 19.94 Tflops. Speed technology advances at such a rate that the supercomputers are ranked every six months. This Blue Gene/L is envisioned by the US Department of Energy to handle information on nuclear stockpile. Other press releases say that it would also have wider implications not just in the energy sector but in biotechnology as well. Other supercomputers mentioned handle information involving climate change.
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[mbeeston]

yes.. but can it run halo past 100fps? ^^

[Geminiwave]

most likely not. I doubt it can game worth anything...especially considering it is probably not an x86 processor.

[Nacht]

halo would make it explode..the coding is just too bad!

[Sargentwhitey]

Halo and Deus Ex: IW