Newscientist has a slide show of the worlds fastest computers today. What I learned from said slideshow is that Oak Ridge Ntional Labratory totally dorks out with its super computers.
This is an image of the current fastest computer in the world. Guess what they call it? Give up? Its the “Jaguar,” and its used by the department of Energy.
Here’s the previous fastest computer ever, now third fastest. It’s called the Kraken, and is used by the National Institute for Computational Science:
Images produced by these badboys follow after the jump.
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