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The world's fastest computer is a Los Alamos National Laboratory supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for Sony PS3 video game machines.

Michael Fiola was given a Dell Latitude notebook for his job. Later, thanks to a misconfigured Microsoft server that was supposed to keep his computer up to date, the Dell somehow got infected with child pornography. He lost his job and ended up fighting criminal charges, according to Computerworld on Wednesday. Last week, prosecutors dropped their case

The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Erich Strohmaier, a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was one of the founding editors of the Top500 list back in 1993. He talked with IDG News Service about the performance gains the list has seen, the quad-core processors that are coming to dominate it and mistakes that can creep in when the list is put together.

A supercomputer based on the Cell processor that is found in Sony's PlayStation 3 console has rocketed into the latest Top 500 supercomputing ranking at number one to become the most powerful computer in the world.

Misconfigured computers straight from the manufacturer can ruin your life.

Dresden, Germany - The latest semi-official ranking of the world's fastest computers was a no-contest for the top spot, with the Roadrunner, a new US government computer which can simulate atom-bomb blasts, winning hands down on Wednesday. The twice ...

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