Faster than a speeding petaflop: IBM flies past Japanese rival to win battle of the supercomputers
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 19/06/2012 18:16
The US has regained the crown for having the world's fastest supercomputer thanks to a new machine so powerful that it can simulate nuclear bombs and power plant accidents - eliminating the need to conduct dangerous underground tests.
The government-funded IBM machine, called Sequoia, can do in eight hours the number of calculations that it would take the average laptop 20,000 years to complete.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/faster-than-a-speeding-petaflop-ibm-flies-past-japanese-rival-to-win-battle-of-the-supercomputers-7858857.html
