IBM's Sequoia is the world's fastest supercomputer

I'm very impressed with the super-computing community's commitment to energy efficiency. Sure, we could throw more cores at the computations, but making meaningful strides to minimize energy consumption -- in parallel with the iterative improvements to computational power -- is pretty noble and prudent.

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=4126713 (washingtonpost.com)

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

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

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130027 (llnl.gov)

There are probably more ...