Interesting article. It prompted me to look up Cray, Inc.

 From Wikipedia>>>>

 >>>As of November 2009^[update]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cray&action=edit> , the
largest computer system Cray has delivered is the XT5 system at .^
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray#cite_note-nccs-jaguar-4>   National
Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
This system, with over 224,000 processing cores, is dubbed "Jaguar" and
is the fastest computer in the world as measured by the LIN PACK
benchmark  with the speed of 1.75 petaflops.^
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray#cite_note-cnet-jaguar-6> It is also
the fastest system available for open science and the first system to
exceed a petaflops sustained performance on a 64-bit scientific
application.<<<

"Pedaflop" - One quadrillion floating point operations per second.
1,000,000,000,000,000/sec

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On 4/16/2010 5:20 PM, Peter DiFalco wrote:
> http://www.livescience.com/technology/Water-Cooled-Supercomputers-Internet-100415.html
>
> FTA: "Since water and electronics don't mix, the coolant water in Aquasar
> does not ever directly touch the silicon computer chips themselves. If a
> leak should occur, internal sensors would shut the machine down before
> causing a short circuit."
>
> Hey, I wonder why they don't just let it set off a buzzer and make white
> smoke...
>
> "The tubes interspersed in Aquasar will link back to the primary water
> transportation network where some of the collected heat will then be
> passively released back into the heating system of ETH Zurich."
>
> ....Which implies that the building's occupants will need to wear their
> earmuffs and overcoats until the programmers have had a chance to drive the
> supercomputer around the block for half an hour.
>
> The real question is whether they'll still have toasty feet even while the
> air conditioning's on in the summer.
>
> Happy Friday!
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