IBM's NORC

Super calculators, LOL!!!

I always laugh when people compare supercomputers of 20 years ago to what they have today (at home), and then declare 'supercomputers are dead'. No. Supercomputers are 20 years ahead of what you have at home. They are mammoth machines with tens of thousands of multi-core processors. Millions of times faster than what you have at home, right now.

OMFG! AMAZING! when dose it come out? 2010? IBM will have a hard time competeing with intels 1.5 teraflop CPU tho.. i cant wait to play CSS on one of these

Whats that line from MST3K?

"Multiply in minutes! Add up to 3 columns in an hour!"

Go to Wikipedia and type in PUNCHED TAPE or do Google for PUNCHED TAPE STORAGE ( I would post the Wiki URL for this subject on here, UT does not like URLs)

Everything you never wanted to know about the BAD old days of computer technology, it will wake you up at night in a cold sweat, as you have a nightmare that YOUR THE GUY WHO HAS TO RUN THAT THING!!!

I still remember seeing "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and wondering what the heck that punched tape was....I was sorry I aske %-/ (oh this emoicon is a "Picasso")

Anyway, they used to have applications on paper tape, was probably the "upgrade" from punched cards that had to be fed in one at a time (all together now...yikes).

Hanging Chads....It was not just an issue in the 2000 election XD

Remember punchcards? LoL. I am glad to see who and what paved the way for us today. :)

Just think of how people will mock US in 50 years when I am dead and you are all in rocking chairs. :P

lol i agree

Compare this to the RED STORM computer, the difference is startling. 70k decimal numbers per sec, cant even compute who slow that is in todays terms

Actually my watch gets around 69k decimal numbers/sec...