Super-Duper Linux Computers ... That Cray XTS super-computer is now ranked in second place at 1.75 petaflop/s. Don't start weeping for the decline of American technology prowess yet, though.

The US Department of Energy has hired IBM to build the world's fastest supercomputer that will be capable of processing more than 10 quadrillion calculations per second.

The US Department of Energy has hired IBM to build the world's fastest supercomputer that will be capable of processing more than 10 quadrillion calculations per second.