New super hardware... and wetware

''A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo, leading researchers say.
... IBM had barely managed to cling to the top spot, fending off a challenge from Cray. But both competitors broke petaflop speeds, performing 1.105 and 1.059 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second, the first two computers to do so.
'' [source]

''Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have made an important step towards the realization of quantum computing – a predicted technology that would use individual atoms as stand-ins for the transistor circuits on microchips.'' [source]



However:
''IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer contains 4,096 processors, each tricked out with 256MB of RAM. It crunches out 360 trillion floating point operations per second. But as University of Nevada researchers have discovered, it doesn't hold a digital candle to the mind of a mouse ...
The mouse cortex has roughly 8x10⁶ (8m) neurons and 8,000 synapses per neuron
'' [source]

But when they talk about MOUSE VS COMPUTER, do they mean a mouse-mouse or a PC-mouse? :]
Check this mouse out, anyway: