Supercomputers—who gives a rat’s patootie

The Krell supercomputer (1956)   There’s 500 of them!  Five hundred. Do I really give a hoot? If I told you, there are five hundred top baseball players, think you’ve given a… after I named number five or six? Hell, I’d bail out after number three. I mean really, what’s a supercomputer ever done for me? But because we’re an industry obsessed with numbers, and bigger is always, ALWAYS better, then we have to have contests and benchmarks, and winners and losers. So here are the top five winners in the supercomputer race. (Try to stay awake reading it.) The