What I find interesting about this is that apparently the Chinese have developed their own interconnect 'sauce' rather than using Infiniband or whatever. The article does not mention Linux but I presume that is the operating software they are using. Oh yeah, reading the comment section in Engadget to this article reminded me why I stopped even scanning Engadget posts, talk about infantile.
<p><pre><code> can perform mathematical operations about 29 million times
faster than one of the earliest supercomputers, built in
1976.
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I would like to know how fast is a macbook pro compared to one of the earliest supercomputer, built in 1976.