CNN reports on a new supercomputer to be used by NASA and others:

  "The new high-performance computers, developed by Star Bridge Systems
   in Midvale, Utah, replace traditional central processing units with
   specialty circuit board chips that can reconfigure themselves hundreds
   or thousands of times a second.
  ...
  "The Langley Research Center announced this week an agreement to use
   one of the computers, known as HAL (Hyper Algorithmic Logic)-15.
  ...
  "The HAL-15 needs no more space than a standard desktop computer and
   no more electricity than a hair drier."

The full (if short) article is at:

  http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/03/30/langley.supercomputer/index.html

A short page of specs (but no benchmarks) is at:

  http://www.starbridgesystems.com/prod-hal1.html

Pay no attention to the Windows 98 SE behind the curtain (running on an
auxiliary CPU).  Another page notes that

  "Each of the FAI circuit boards residing in any Hypercomputer system
   is a self-contained supercomputer."

  http://www.starbridgesystems.com/prod-hype.html

--Glenn