Viking News Update: Computers and shit

The new list of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world, released today by Top500.org, illustrates the rapid changes that are taking place in the high-performance computing market. Five new systems debuted in the top 10, and more than 200 systems got bumped from the previous list released about six months ago in November 2004.
Even with the changes, IBM strengthened its position at the top of the list. It placed six systems in the top 10 – five of which are Blue Gene systems.
At the top of the list is the Blue Gene/L system installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The system placed number one on the previous list in November, but has since doubled in size and increased in power. Using the Linpack benchmark, which is applied to all the systems on the list, the LLNL system is benchmarked at 136.8 TeraFLOPS (136.8 trillion operations per second).
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