World Fastest Computer

IBM supercomputer Blue Gene/L, which at 137teraflops .... fastest computer on this planet

Japan aims for world's fastest computer by 2010.... it will run at a maximum speed of 10 petaflops, 10 quadrillion floating-point operations a second.

The current record holder is the IBM supercomputer Blue Gene/L, which at 137 teraflops is around seventy times slower.

The Ministry estimates that the project will cost up to 100bn-yen (£500m), and says that the machine will be used for research into drugs, weather systems and cosmology