IBM supercomputer is world's new fastest?

[Phantasm66]

IBM is claiming that its new supercomputer is the world's fastest, and steals the crown from Earth Simulator as the top of the top 500. The Blue Gene/L machine has reached a sustained peak of 36.01 trillion calculations per second—or 36.01 teraflops—during internal tests in the company's laboratory in Rochester, Minn.

 

[Per Hansson]

And all this while not even being built yet, now that is an impressive feat