Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Geek News: University of Tennessee Has First Academic Computer to Break the Petascale!

Congratulations, you University of Tennessee geeks! By breaking the petascale, the supercomputer performs 1 thousand trillion operations per second. It really is a Great Moment in Research!

Bonus: the supercomputer is named "Kraken." No, really!

Further bonus: Hey, we can use the Kraken to count our national debt!

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