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Military Supercomputer Sets Record

The New York Times: 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.

Posted by Physics Today on June 9, 2008 2:03 PM |

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