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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 01, 2006 @01:13PM from the i'll-take-two dept.

deman1985 writes "As reported by UPI, Japan has unveiled their fastest supercomputer yet. Assembled from Hitachi and IBM components, the new system sports total performance around 59 trillion calculations per second and comes at a cool 5-year lease price of $30 million. Pictures of the beast can be found at Mainichi Daily News."

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Re:I wonder (Score:2, Funny)

by Cygfrydd ( 957180 ) writes: <cygfrydd@llewellyn.gmail@com> on Wednesday March 01, 2006 @01:30PM (#14827939)

Reportedly, it is just fast enough to use Windows Vista’s Aero Glass GUI.

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Like the name... KEK (Score:4, Funny)

by BitwizeGHC ( 145393 ) writes: on Wednesday March 01, 2006 @01:41PM (#14828070) Homepage

In other news, South Korea unveiled its new supercomputer: KEKEKE ^____^

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