Cray XT5 supercomputer becomes world’s fastest thanks to upgrade — 1.75 petaflops/sec

Cray XT5 supercomputer becomes world’s fastest thanks to upgrade — 1.75 petaflops/sec

Take your current desktop screamer and go for a stroll outside on a bone chilling mid-January mid-west winter. Take your prised rig and drop it in the freshly fallen snow and dump molasses all over it. When you’re done, poor water all over the mass of mess and fire up the leave blower. Got a nice vivid picture yet? That’s roughly the speed of your computer compared to the current champ — the Cray XT5 Super Computer. You may recognize the name as it...