http://phys.org/news/2013-01-million-co ... rrier.html

1,572,864 cores and 1.6 petabytes of memory connected by a five-dimensional torus interconnect

It's one thing building it, but quite another to actually program for it. This is the first time they've actually used all the cores!

I like the quote:

Back then he worked on the Cray Y-MP, one of the fastest supercomputers of its time. "Sequoia is approximately 10 million times more powerful than that machine," Nichols noted.

I think my phone is way more than 10 million times more powerful than my first PC. I had 48K and an 8 bit 1MHz processor which managed about 5 flops!

I think the average phone could host Pirate bay if necessary. Phones are so much more powerful than computers of a decade a go.