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    Fastest computer in the world!

    the IBM roadrunner super computer the first comupter to do a sastainable petaflaps. thats 1000 trillion floating point opperations per second!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/te...YQ&oref=slogin

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    Quote Originally Posted by rapter34 View Post
    the IBM roadrunner super computer the first comupter to do a sastainable petaflaps. thats 1000 trillion floating point opperations per second!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/te...YQ&oref=slogin
    I wonder how many years it will be before the average video game system or cell phone has this much power.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rapter34 View Post
    the IBM roadrunner super computer the first comupter to do a sastainable petaflaps. thats 1000 trillion floating point opperations per second!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/te...YQ&oref=slogin
    sh*t that super computer is gona take over the earth like on terminator

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainCaveMan View Post
    I wonder how many years it will be before the average video game system or cell phone has this much power.
    probably never LOL!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlwnCamaro View Post
    probably never LOL!
    plus home computers don't use Floating point Operation. this thing is a calculator on steroids.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlwnCamaro View Post
    sh*t that super computer is gona take over the earth like on terminator
    lol skynet

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    google is skynet in its infancy

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    Quote Originally Posted by stangslayer98 View Post
    google is skynet in its infancy

    Lets hope not! LOL
    Last edited by BlwnCamaro; 06-12-2008 at 11:09 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rapter34 View Post
    plus home computers don't use Floating point Operation. this thing is a calculator on steroids.
    Wow I bet it cost some serious bucks, I would have used money to make worlds fastest LS1 with FI LOL!

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    lol my car would so kill that computer in a race..

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    Quote Originally Posted by tigersport14 View Post
    lol my car would so kill that computer in a race..
    ha ha for sure! It looks a little heavy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlwnCamaro View Post
    ha ha for sure! It looks a little heavy!
    yea and those aerodynamics?? looks like a mustang!! haha!

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    IDK you through some ricer stickers on that baby adn who knows how fast it is.

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    and vtec

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    I bet I could get my computer to go faster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z View Post
    I bet I could get my computer to go faster.
    you cant even get your car to go fast

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    Quote Originally Posted by 440 rwhp trans am View Post
    you cant even get your car to go fast
    Zing!

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    snap!!!

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    "To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day."

    wow...that's a fast byoutch

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    now imagine what is still under develpoment...
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