As Many Processors As….

Posted on August 8, 2009 by

Here’s a cool “Where in the Universe?” from Universe Today. But the thing I liked most was the comment that Argonne National Laboratory’s Blue Gene/P supercomputer has as many processors as “Giants Stadium were it filled to capacity with people toting dual-core laptops.”
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Nice images: verbal and visible.

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