I have to say that the world of supercomputers sure is getting interesting. IBM's Blue Gene/L just broke its own speed record. IBM just announced that Blue Gene/L has now reached 135.5 teraflops. This is twice what it was able to achieve last fall when it took the title of "Worlds Fastest Computer" from NEC's "Earth Simulator". So 134.4 trillion calculations per second. Boy that is a lot of zeros. And Blue Gene/L is still in development. When it is finally delivered to Livermore Labs later this year it is projected to be capable of 360 teraflops. To do that it will use 65,536 individual processors. Supercomputers have come a long way from the circular shaped Cray-1 from 1976 whos shape most people equate with supercomputers.