The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that the BlueGene/L supercomputer built by IBM at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories performed at 280.6 trillion operations per second (teraflops) on the Linpack benchmark, the standard by which major supercomputers were measured. This shattered the previous high mark of performing at 135.3 teraflops.
"IBM said in a statement that if every person in the world had a handheld calculator it would still take decades to perform the number of calculations Blue Gene performs every single second."
