IBM claims supercomputer speed crown - An IBM supercomputer still under development has set an unofficial new world speed record during testing, the company announced on Wednesday. IBM says its Blue Gene/L, sited in Minnesota, US, attained a sustained performance of 36.01 teraflops when performing the standard benchmark used to test supercomputers, known as the Linpack test.
Scientists Invent 1TB Optical Discs - The 1TB disk would be double sided and dual layer, but even a single sided, single layer, MODS disk could hold the Lord of the Rings trilogy 13 times over, or all 238 episodes of Friends. MODS disks will not be the first to challenge DVDs domination of the audiovisual optical disk market. BluRay disks, which have five times the capacity of a DVD at 25GB per layer, are expected to be released towards the end of 2005 for the home market.
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