There is absolutely no consistency in numbers in this story. Some measurements show this computer to be about 45% slower than the Cray XT5 and some show it to be faster. Given China's history of arbitrarily throwing out numbers to try to prop themselves up in the international community I cannot accept this as fact without some sort of independent verification. If China has in fact created the worlds fastest supercomputer, I congratulate them on a job well done. But I am still skeptical about this story. Sounds like my government (US) is just looking for an excuse to spend billions more on a new supercomputer.

/.'s definition of net neutrality is much different than that of congressional and senate democrats. They have said that they will use net neutrality regulation to force providers to show equal 'airtime' of their political views. In essence, they want to require your internet provider to become a forced propaganda machine instead allowing them to dictate advertisements based on price and/or surfer demographics. MiniTruth anyone? or am I the only logical person that sees this?

Exactly what I have been saying for years. For all those who live in the US and complain about our government, go live in a socialist country for a few years and see what it is really like before you scream your insane little head off that we need to be socialist here. Democracy and capitalism is what has led the US to being the worlds largest economy. It is only when government interferes with private matters does our system begin to have problems. Which reminds me, is exactly what the Obama administration is doing with health care and cap and trade. Oh yea, did I mention that all of these wacky @ss meteorologists that think that 'global warming' is out of controll have neglected to factor in sun spot activity, which has been deemed the most important factor in global temperatures, and that their models are based on venus having an atmosphere that is 97% co2 by volume while earth only has 0.0384% by volume and has only increased 0.00995% since 1832. I have yet to see one notable climatologist step forward and say that global warming is man made. Those who have were either trying to get attention drawn to their floundering careers or were pressured by politicians, notably Al Gore - The Convenient Liar, to go along with their plan.