The first Petaflop Computer

The fastest known computer ever made (on our human inhabited planet)

This is a pretty big thing in our computer world. The bigger, faster and stronger our computers are the larger and more complicated questions we can ask and the better answers it will give. Imagine a computer that could completely simulate the Earth? You know how we like to argue about global climate change, well the answers that we are seeking are out there - we just have to ask the right questions and a computer that is like this will be the first machine to tell us.
"To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day."