http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008 ... uters.html

So super computers now have the capasity to pass a petaflop. That's... a very fast mother f*cker. Like really... I'm going to be stupid for saying this but I honestly never thought that technology would have been able to pass that. I can't even comprehend a gigaflop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS for more information on flops.

Another thing I would like to point out as actually in that wiki article. I actually wasn't away of what was past Peta on the prefix scale.

A Petabyte is what will be after a Terrabyte. So a Petabyte is 1000TB. But after that we have Exabyte (1000 petabytes), Zettabyte (1000 exabytes), and Yottabyte (1000 zettabytes).

Basically a yottabyte is one billion terrabytes. And here I thought I was pretty awesome for having 1TB...