http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nm/tech_ibm_dc
The supercomputer consists of 1186 powerful IBM computers connected together with a total of about 2,300 64-bit microprocessors made by AMD. The supercomputer would run on the Linux (news - web sites) operating system.
The system will perform at a peak speed of 10 teraflops, or 10 trillion mathematical operations per second.
That means the supercomputer will be able to accomplish in just one second what it would take a person with a calculator a few million years.
that a good or a bad thing? wonder what it will be used for..