IBM also will build a 500-teraflop computer called Dawn, which will provide the application foundation for computing on Sequoia.
You heard that, IBM’s largest-ever penis supercomputer is so ungodly freaking massive that it needs a 500 teraflop supercomputer just to run it. By comparison today’s hottest shit graphics cards can manage a teraflop or two. Not only is this computer 20 freaking times faster than today’s fastest computer (which is also, of course, an IBM), it requires a supercomputer HALF AS FAST as today’s FASTEST supercomputer just to run software to feed it it’s programming. Holy. Fucking. Shit.
Oh by the way I applied for an internship with IBM’s Almaden research center to be a microscope jockey this summer. Wish me luck.
Update: I should have read the whole article first. Not only will this be the world’s fastest computer,
Sequoia is expected to be more powerful than the combined performance of all the systems on the Top500 list, according to IBM.
That’s right, they said all of them combined. IBM is. THE. SHIT.