Digital World

Scientists believe our brains can carry out around 10,000 trillion operations per second. A supercomputer, which can process over 200 trillion operations per second, is being built these days. Completed in late 2004, the world’s most powerful computer was ASCI Purple. It carried out 100 trillion operations per second.

It replaced ASCI White - formerly the world’s most powerful computer - which occupies a space the size of two basketball courts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. But in a recent list at Top 500 BLueGene has beaten=n ACS purple to become the new Super Computer. The lists is as follows:

1. IBM’s BlueGene/L - 360 teraflops
2. IBM’s BGW - 115 teraflops
3. IBM’s ASC Purple - 93 teraflops

But the dream to beat human brain si still far ahead.