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  • Europe's fastest computer boots up (an IBM)

    07/20/2012 7:37:35 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 9 replies
    thelocal.de ^ | 20 Jul 12 07:34 CET
    Europe's fastest supercomputer was set to be unveiled on Friday in Munich. Its three petaflops of processing power will be used to explore new worlds, from the wonders of the cosmos to mysteries of the earth's core. The phenomenal processing power is equivalent to three billion people each holding a pocket calculator, each completing one million calculations every second. This is how IBM likes to represent the performance of their newest supercomputer, which at its three petaflop peak performance (FLOP—Floating Operations Per Second) is the fourth fastest in the world. … SuperMUC, which weighs more than 100 tonnes and has...