sophia | August 31, 2012 | no comments
You overclock your rig to the bleeding edge, direct deposit your paycheck to Newegg, and are on the utility company’s watch list because of the blackouts you’ve been known to cause. Yes, you’re a badass power user, but let’s face it, none of your home-built rigs can touch these 10 beasts. So what if half of these machines only exist in the minds of sci-fi writers – their computational prowess transcends the fiction/reality plane, putting our mighty Petaflop age to shame.
ASCI Red
ASCI White
Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel
The Earth Simulator
Connection Machine-5 (CM-5)
Blue Gene/L
Cray-2
IBM Roadrunner
Cray-1
Jaguar
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