http://www.msnbc.com/news/426657.asp?0nm=T2CD
June 28 — IBM Corp. will soon deliver what it calls the fastest computer ever to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. But the monstrous machine — really 512 computers, and 8,192 microprocessors linked together — still isn’t quite big enough for the monstrous task Livemore staff really have in mind. It’s designed to precisely simulate the explosion of nuclear weapons, so the U.S. no longer has to perform occasional nuclear testing.
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ah-HA - i see we're misbehaving AGAIN tonite eh, BOONE
misbehaving...who me? (Boone attempts to look all innocent)
June 28 — IBM Corp. will soon deliver what it calls the fastest computer ever to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. But the monstrous machine — really 512 computers, and 8,192 microprocessors linked together — still isn’t quite big enough for the monstrous task Livemore staff really have in mind. It’s designed to precisely simulate the explosion of nuclear weapons, so the U.S. no longer has to perform occasional nuclear testing.
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ah-HA - i see we're misbehaving AGAIN tonite eh, BOONE
misbehaving...who me? (Boone attempts to look all innocent)