Dave U. Random

(Wall Street Journal) - This fall, the Chinese National University
of Defense Technology announced that it had created the world's
fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at 2.5 petaflops
(or 2,500 trillion operations) per second. This is the shape of the
world to come — but not in the way you might think.

Powering the Tianhe-1A are some three million processing cores from
Nvidia, the Silicon Valley company that has sold hundreds of
millions of graphics chips for videogames. That's right — every
time someone fires up a videogame like "Call of Duty" or "World of
Warcraft," the state of the art in technology advances. Hug a geek
today...

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