World's Fastest Supercomputer
I love it when the speed of things are put in perspective. Take this quote from CNN today regarding the world's fastest supercomputer which was unveiled recently by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp.
"If every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day."
This supercomputer is twice as fast as it's nearest competitor which is itself 3 times as fast as anything else in use.
Gandhi said "there is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
However, this is still a cool piece of information!