The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer is the first at a university (fourth in the world) to break petascale, capable of "performing more than one thousand trillion operations per second."
I believe the answer it will ultimately calculate is 42.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Hey, curious if you've seen this yet.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/infrared-video-500000-bats-emerge-from-cave/
Thanks for the heads up. I'll indeed write a post in a bit.
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