Just finished reading...

...Panic in Level Four, a book by Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone. It's a collection of six articles he wrote... and I found one of them online...

The Chudnovsky brothers call their machine m zero. It occupies the former living room of Gregory’s apartment, and its tentacles reach into other rooms.

The brothers claim that m zero is a “true, general-purpose supercomputer,” and that it is as fast and powerful as a somewhat older Cray Y-MP, but it is not as fast as the latest of the Y-MP machines, the C90, an advanced supercomputer made by Cray Research.

Slightly elevated "tech-geek quotient"... but well worth the read.

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