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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.

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 02:07 am (UTC)
It's probably safe to say it won't run Vista ;)
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 12:33 pm (UTC)
No. Not nearly enough power for that... ;>