A recent leaked top secret internal memo from IBM’s Australian Headquarters tells of a brilliant young computer scientist named Peter Petaflop who, it claims, has built the world’s most powerful personal computer from a small Gold Coast industrial workshop. Inside sources claim that this so called “Super PC” is so advanced it has the equivalent power of 2 million laptops and is capable of calculating in one day what it would take 120 billion people armed with calculators nearly 50 years to process!
From the memo it would appear that IBM has attempted, unsuccessfully, to coerce Petaflop into joining their development team. Coincidently at a recent press release IBM broke news of their new supercomputer, codenamed “Sequoia”. Planned for deployment at the USA Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, initial testing will be conducted at IBM’s Rochester, Minnesota plant in the USA. Further information can be found here: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26599.wss
Petaflop was reported “missing” some weeks ago along with all traces of his computer hardware and equipment. Despite extensive police investigation and searches in and around his home suburb of Parkwood, friends and family have heard nothing from him in nearly a month. His mother Dawn Petaflop, obviously distraught, believes her son to be the victim of a well planned kidnap plot with the intention of stealing his discovery.
Petaflop, a keen Geocacher in his spare time, left a set of coordinates followed by the word “dark” hurriedly scrawled on his mouse pad – the only piece of computer equipment left in his workshop. Police have checked the location and finding no leads, have dismissed it as a dead end. The search continues.
Mother Dawn believes there is a Geocaching connection and has appealed to the Geocaching community for help. She believes that this may be a vital clue as to his whereabouts and suggests that should you wish to help, you take a torch along as his cryptic message may indicate this is best done at night.