The World's Fastest Computer

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To put the performance of the machine (named Roadrunner) in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.

>Full details of the New York Times article here