IBM said that in the past 10 years, supercomputer power has increased about 1,000 times. Today, just three of Roadrunner's 3,456 tri-blade units have the same power as the 1998 fastest computer.

The multi-million-dollar question is who will be left standing after four rounds of body blows and haymakers, and believe it or not, a computer may have the answer. According to Oddspedia’s ...