Teraflops adieu...

Yes, the good old Teraflop is going out of service in 2008 there will be a new generation of Supercomputers, 1.6 petaflops, that is fast that is 1,600 times faster than 100 teraflops today's fastes supercomputer manages 280 teraflops. Both the present and the future top Supercomputer are made by IBM, now the reason for the enormous jump in computing power is simple and it is connected with the PS3. Yes, you guessed right they are going to build in this supercomputer CELL chips, 16,000 of them and a similar number of AMD Optron CPU's. The monster of for everyone unfamiliar with Tera and Petaflops here is the explanation. 100 teraflops equal about 100 trillion floating calculations, 1.6 petaflops equal 1.6 quadrillion floating calculations.
Now you wonder for what in the name of God will they use this number monster, well not for Space Travel or anything else that might be adventurous, they are going to use it at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory...
Think about the gaming potential...;-)