America's fastest computerImage: wikipedia commonsIBM's Watson computer astonished the world in February when it won a Jeopardy match against two human contestants. This week, Watson got a job at WellPoint health insurance as a consultant.
In honor of this, we've re-released our list of the greatest electronic processors on the planet.
Most of these are supercomputers: giant mainframes that link many small processors to achieve breakneck speeds. In terms of pure speed, the smartest is China's Tianhe.
But we also looked at computers that are incredibly good at a certain task. Watson is the best Jeopardy playing computer, just like there's a best weather predicting computer.
As Ken Jennings said when he was beat out on Jeopardy. "I for one welcome our new computer overlords."
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