Fastest supercomputer to be built

[James]

Computer giant IBM will build the world's most powerful supercomputer at a US government laboratory. The machine, codenamed Roadrunner, could be four times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.

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[kev woodman]

But can you play Half Life 2 on it?

[paul]

I think it will dominate Nasa super computer in supercomputing technology and architecture, a rough estimate of such machine is going to be cost $100 million while Nasa supercomputer costs $50 million.

[kev woodman]

And apparently it still hasn't got the spec to run Vista