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New Top 500 Supercomputer List 138

geaux and other readers let us know that the new Top 500 Supercomputer list is out. The top two both break the Petaflops barrier: LANL's IBM "RoadRunner" and ORNL's Cray XT5 "Jaguar." (Contrary to our discussion a few days back, IBM's last-minute upgrade of RoadRunner salvaged the top spot for Big Blue. Kind of like bidding on eBay.) The top six all run in excess of 400 Teraflops. HP has more systems in the top 500 than IBM, reversing the order of the previous list. Both Intel and AMD issued press releases crowing over their wins, and both are correct — AMD highlights its presence in 7 of the top 10, while Intel boasts that 379 of the top 500 use their chips.

Comment Re:Prior Art? (Score 1) 663

USPTO seems like a good place to adopt a peer review model, like a science journal. That way the patent examiner can act like an editor and gather opinions from the experts in each narrow field. The experts could present any prior art and opinions about the uniqueness of each patent claim.

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