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Good effort, well done. You were all so close. To be fair, I'd have gone for Blue Gene too just because it's IBM a.k.a Big Blue. Not many of us encounter supercomputers in our daily life and the news articles on them tend to be a bit dull, only mentioning how many FLOPS they can do :shrug:

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Good going Simon! ........I wonder though, if you lost to kevin would you put this thread up :D

 

Maybe not ;). Thanks guys, it was actually a lot closer than it looked too - we actually answered 7 sudden death questions before they finally beat us, but they cut that out. In fact Jeremy ran out of questions at one point and had to go get some more!

 

We were a bitt annoyed about the roadrunner question to start with, but it was filmed back in July remember, and that had only just taken the record a few weeks before. I think Blue gene is the no.4 fastest machine now. So we weren't too annoyed - pretty much everyone we asked at work afterwards got it wrong too.

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