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The Fastest Gets Faster

November 14, 2005, 11:40 am

BlueGene/L is still the cream of the supercomputing crop, according to a new list of the world’s 500 most powerful  machines. The computer, which is operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, easily outpaced the competition: It has more than doubled its work rate since June, when it topped the rankings by performing more than 136 trillion calculations in a second.

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