NEC designs world's most powerful supercomputer, the tights-and-cape-wearing SX-9

NEC-supercomputer.jpgIf there was anyone I’d assume would be capable of creating the world’s most powerful supercomputer, I thought it’d be Alienware or someone of similar ilk – certainly not NEC, purveyors of your average family CRT TV back in 1992.

The SX-9 beast is apparently capable of calculating 839 teraflops, or, for geeks or understand this, 839 trillion floating point operations per second. In other words, it may just be able to handle your incessant 14-tabbed browsing habits. People planning on visiting the supercomputing…