Really fast computer...

Story on MSNBC about the new bad boy in supercomputers, the IBM ASCI White. It has 8192 processors linked together that can perform 12 teraflops (although a source at Screaming-Penguin.com says he heard 16 teraflops). Still not fast enough to figure out if our aging nuclear arsenal will still go "boom" though...

The DOE wants to get to 100 teraflops by 2004.   The world’s most powerful computer