# A new kid on the block v worlds fastest..
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 12, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891 "2008-03-12T11:51:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/1 "2008-03-12T11:51:12Z")
SUPA COMPUTA
_[Hardware | Oracle](http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2008-0311/feature/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008mar10_tac_read)_
Sun Unveils The Most Powerful Super-Computer on the Planet
> The supercomputer contains 82 Sun Blade 6048 Modular Systems racks
> Each rack holds 48 Sun Fire 6000 Blade Servers, for a total of 3,936
> Each blade has four quad-core AMD processors
> That makes a total of 15,744 AMD processors, with 62,976 cores!
:bowdown:
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/2 "2008-03-12T11:52:59Z")
500 teraflops :eek:
Whats th power on the “2nd” fastest now? I forget.
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/3 "2008-03-12T11:56:38Z")
the “publically disclosed” fastest list that i was able to track down quickly is
[http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11](http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11)
[http://www.top500.org/system/8968](http://www.top500.org/system/8968)
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/4 "2008-03-12T11:57:19Z")
where is slick rick. how is that super computer doing at ub?
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/5 "2008-03-12T11:57:52Z")
Meh its all about who runs the worlds largest SAN 😉
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/6 "2008-03-12T11:58:29Z")
Oh, and so we are apparently only ~12 years away from surpassing the processing power of the human brain.
:tinfoilhat:
…500,000,000,000,000 today… doubling every 2 years.
~20,000,000,000,000,000 for the human brain (fact checkers c’mon in plz).
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/7 "2008-03-12T12:00:30Z")
> [@FormulaLS1](#):
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> Meh its all about who runs the worlds largest SAN 😉
again. thats public information :tinfoilhat:
and, you can’t crack a 2048 bit pgp key with a san son 😛
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/8 "2008-03-12T12:02:17Z")
> [@Locutus](#):
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> the “publically disclosed” fastest list that i was able to track down quickly is
Yea… people tend to forget that DARPA founded the interwebs et al… and obviously there are _alot_ more powers at work then that.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-new-kid-on-the-block-v-worlds-fastest/44891/9 "2008-03-12T13:38:09Z")
:tspry: