IBM have unveiled a new supercomputer which is capable of 20 quadrillion computations per second, but still apparently crashes halfway through Redtube videos:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/03/fastest-supercomputer-ibm-sequoia
Also the word "petaflop" sounds a little but twee to me. For a machine of this magnitude it should be a word like "titancrax" or "midoplange".
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