Tuesday 3 February 2009

IBM to build fastest computer on planet for managing US nuclear arsenal

IBM is to buil a super computer to manage the US' nuclear arsenal. The "Sequoia" will achieve speeds of up to 20,000 trillion calculations a second, will contain more than 1.6 million microprocessors and will be housed in a 3,422 sq ft building in the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

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