Supercomputation nowadays

I have been traveling around in the last month and this has contributed to my better understanding of Computation, in general, and in the context of climate change-related issues.

And so, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) impressed me a lot with its ability of applying the supercomputation power for climate predictions.

To that end, the high performance computing is defined in the Lab as capable of calculating over a thousand trillion calculations per second (a “petaflop”). Thus, a Cray XT supercomputer, called Jaguar simulating physical systems with heretofore unfeasible speed and accuracy—from the explosions of stars to the building blocks of matter, became the fastest supercomputer in the world for unclassified research. It is running at 1.8 petaflops per second (1.8 x 1015 flops), approximately 10% of the estimated compute capacity of a human.

That led to University of Tennessee supercomputer, called Kraken.

See the WBIR video, of which motto is, by the way, straight from the heart:

Here is me encouraged to admire Kraken that indeed officially became the world's most powerful academic supercomputer and the third-fastest overall on the planet.
Whereas Jaguar, the formerly mentioned one from ORNL is the first overall.

Can it get better?