Britain's new fastest supercomputer makes its ominous debut

[froggyboy604]

It's always tough to keep track of the fastest supercomputers around at any given moment, but according to Reuters, the rather imposing block of machines pictured above is now at the top of the heap in Britain, and at least near the top in all of Europe. Dubbed HECToR (for High-End Computing Terascale Resource), the Cray-built rig packs the equivalent power of 12,000 desktop PCs, or enough to perform some 63 million calculations per second, which'll apparently be used to study everything from climate change to new medicines -- or, as the researchers responsible for the computer put it, "push forward the boundaries of knowledge."

Source:: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/brit ... ous-debut/

wow, fast.

[SetoTK]

add in a couple decent graphics cards and it'll be a decent unit to run vista

[froggyboy604]

Yes, but does Vista still have as many problem compatibility problems due to lack of drivers for hardware?

[milagro]

maybe we could run some virtual machines on it to win better equipment for our game characters. WOW.