Blue Gene/L

The world's fastest computer is called Blue Gene/L. It's located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory which is only about an hour's drive from my place. This supercomputer was built by IBM for the U.S. government. It's optimized for molecular dynamics applications. It has total memory of 32 tebibytes and total power of 1.5 megawatts. The full system has 65,536 dual-processor compute nodes. Last week, Blue Gene/L broke its own world's record for real world applications, by sustaining 207.3 TFLOPS. That's 207.3 trillion floating point operations per second. Pretty fast, I'd say. ;)