IBM NNSA Sequoia brings the 'world's fastest supercomputer' title back to the US

In case anyone missed it, here are a few more reports of the same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125450 (bbc.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125840 (bbc.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127060 (eweek.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127543 (patexia.com)

so that's what IBM has been working on! did IBM sleep through the last few years? back in 1990 this would have been amazingly cool. today, it just shows how disconnected they are from modern computing.