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	Scientist develop fastest computer (for now)

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                                        Scientists develop fastest computer                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_hi_te/fastest_computer"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/B41DE818-845E-476F-A660-DAE3B9FB5220" alt="This undated handout photo provided by IBM and the Feature Photo Service shows lead engineer Don Grice of IBM inspecting the world's fastest computer, nicknamed 'Roadrunner', in the company's Poughkeepsie, N.Y. plant. Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, June 9, 2008, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise. The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_hi_te/fastest_computer"><P>
                        WASHINGTON - Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_hi_te/fastest_computer"><P>The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the <SPAN id="lw_1213047393_0" class="yshortcuts">Los Alamos National Laboratory</SPAN> and <SPAN id="lw_1213047393_1" class="yshortcuts">IBM Corp</SPAN>. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating <SPAN id="lw_1213047393_2" class="yshortcuts">nuclear explosions</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_hi_te/fastest_computer"><P>The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at <SPAN id="lw_1213047393_3" class="yshortcuts">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</SPAN>, which itself is three times faster than any of the world's other supercomputers, according to IBM.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_hi_te/fastest_computer"><P>"The computer is a speed demon. It will allow us to solve tremendous problems," said Thomas D'Agostino, head of the <SPAN id="lw_1213047393_4" class="yshortcuts">National Nuclear Security Administration</SPAN>, which oversees <SPAN id="lw_1213047393_5" class="yshortcuts">nuclear weapons research</SPAN> and maintains the warhead stockpile.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/83590DC0-40A7-4A36-A9AE-0D804EA51C25/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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