BM is building the world’s faster supercomputer for the Department of Energy. The machine will have more computing power than the world’s current 500 fastest machines put together. The machine will be dubbed Sequoai, taken from the Latin name for the Californian redwood. It will have a 1.6TB of memory and be housed in 96 racks, each the size of a refrigerator.The current world’s faster computer, also made by IBM and used at the DoE, is known as Roadrunner. It was the first to break the one petaflop barrier, meaning it can carry out a quadrillion (one million billion) calculations...