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In a mine is bigger than yours battle, Oak Ridge lab technicians now have a decent pick up line for their dates:

The Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will start to take delivery on a computer at least as three times more powerful than any now in operation.

Cray Inc. of Seattle will supply the system, named Baker. It will run approximately 24,000 2.6 Ghz quad-core Opteron processors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The nodes will be housed in 187 liquid-cooled cabinets. The system, which is still in early stages of design, will have either 187 or 400 terabytes of working memory (depending on the cost of memory modules) and from one to 11 petabytes of storage.

“Ohh, your petabyte is so big!” says the woman to the white lab coat technician conducting routine maintenance. Continue reading if you must. Scientists will allot time with the special machine to scientists in dire need of immense computing power.