Computing Update

Petascale computer gets the green light:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/32152

This shows you the Law of Accelerating Returns in action:

"Specifically, NASA Ames, Intel and SGI will work together on a project called Pleiades to develop a system with a capacity of one Petaflops peak performance by 2009 and a system with a peak performance of 10 Petaflops by 2012."