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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fast ... index.html
...for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second...

The interconnecting system occupies 6,000 square feet with 57 miles of fiber optics and weighs 500,000 pounds. Although made from commercial parts, the computer consists of 6,948 dual-core computer chips and 12,960 cell engines, and it has 80 terabytes of memory.

The cost: $100 million.
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...1,000 trillion...
Uh, why not just say \"quadrillion\"? :roll:
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I was asking that same question heh....
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