The top 500 supercomputers in the world, in rank order, as of last June. The top entry on the list uses 548,000 SPARC64 cores and burns 10 megawatts. No word on what the air conditioning plant looks like.
posted by Chocolate Pickle on Oct 2, 2011 - 55 comments

From the BBC, A graphical treemap of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, arranged by country, speed, OS, application, processor and manufacturer. [more inside]
posted by memebake on May 31, 2010 - 50 comments

How many systems does Google have? It depends on how you look at their S-1 filing and estimate their buying patterns... any way you look at it there's some serious computing power there.
posted by clevershark on Apr 30, 2004 - 8 comments

Bush Admin contemplating the quarantine of super computers made in the US.
posted by HoldenCaulfield on Dec 24, 2001 - 11 comments

Crap, don't tell me I have to upgrade again! IBM introduced a commercial version of the "ASCI White computer" today, which it claims is the world's most powerful supercomputer, able to process 12.3 trillion calculations per second. But can I play pacman on it?
posted by Outlawyr on Jul 24, 2000 - 0 comments