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June 26th, 2007

unixronin: Closed double loop of rotating gears (Gearhead)
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 12:24 pm

A:  A petaflop.

Three of them, to be precise, if you have a fully-configured Blue Gene/P supercomputer — 216 cabinets, each cabinet holding 32 boards, each board holding 32 processors, each processor with four 850MHz PowerPC450 cores, for a total of 884,736 processor cores.