Roadrunner Supercomputer...

http://news.cnet.com/IBMs-Roadrunner-set-to-smash-supercomputing-marks/2100-1010_3-6218169.html

Roadrunner operates at speeds exceeding one petaflop -- one thousand trillion calculations per second -- or one million billion calculations per second; or one quadrillion calculations per second.

You would need 100,000 of today’s fastest laptop computers -- that’s a stack of laptops 1.5 miles high -- to equal Roadrunner’s amazing performance.

It would take six billion people -– roughly the population of the earth -- with each of us working a handheld calculator, more than 46 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day.

In the past 10 years, supercomputer power has increased about 1,000 times. If it were possible for cars to improve their gas mileage over the past decade at the same rate that supercomputers have improved their cost and efficiency, we'd be getting 200,000 miles to the gallon today.

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