A recent survey of the most powerful computers in the world reveals that the US based Jaguar takes the top slot with a speed of 1.8 petaflops (a lot). It is based in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and is not used for distilling Jack Daniels. The US has 277 of the top 500. Europe has 153 and the UK has 44 of them. China had a fifth placed ranking with the Tianhe-1 at about 0.6 petaflops (still quite a lot). Who said the mainframe was dead?
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December 01, 2009
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