Day schrijft: "Nadat ze Kasparov te pakken hadden met Deep Bleu is IBM weer bezig met een nieuw speledingetje: Blue Gene. Ze gaan het gebruiken voor wetenschappelijke doeleinden. Jammer, ik dacht zelf meer aan een Quake server" (UT mag ook? ):
Horn said that Blue Gene, when fully operational in four to five years, will be capable of speeds up to one "petaflop." In more simple terms, Horn said that Blue Gene will be able to perform 1 million billion operations every second, and would be 500 times faster than the world's present fastest computer. That would also make it a million times faster than the fastest desktop currently in use, he said.Goyal said that, assuming sufficient bandwidth existed, the communications power resident in Blue Gene would be able to download all the pages on the World Wide Web in less than one second.
Haha, ik zie die zogenaamde supercomputers van Saint Steve al in hun broekie plassen .