We edit all of our vacation videos using MIT’s most powerful computer, with a theoretical peak speed of 5.7 Teraflops (5.7 x 10^12 floating point operations per second) and sustained speed of 4.7 Teraflops. It is currently ranked 76th on the Top 500 list of computers in the world, of which most are other Blue Gene/L computers at other institutions.

A member of a new line of IBM supercomputers, MIT’s new Blue Gene computer consists of a single rack with 1,000 processor chips. They were developed through a partnership with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which currently owns 64 of its own. These computers represent a new generation of computing, in which a single supercomputer rack can replace a room full of conventional computers and use an order of magnitude less power.

With this kind of computing power behind the project just hold on to your seats.