Imagine if this joined our Team.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5322704.stm
A bit faster than Temujin's overclocked ZX81 then !!The new machine will be able to achieve "petaflop speeds," said IBM. One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
Running at peak speed, it will be able to crunch through 1.6 thousand trillion calculations per second.
OK - so what will they use to deliver it then ??......12,000 square feet wouldn't fit on a truck easily...!When Roadrunner is finished in 2008 it will cover 12,000 square feet (1,100 square metres) of floor space at Los Alamos National Laboratory
IBM says it will start shipping the new supercomputer later this year.
And now we know why the PS3 is delayed in Europe - IBM has bought all the "cell processors" to use for this damn thing....just so they can crunch more WU's than us I'll bet......!
regards,
Tim