IBM designed supercomputers according to the new President's order

Authorized by the US government, IBM will design a nuclear arsenal supercomputer capable of processing 20,000 million million calculations a second.

All processing and analysis results of the device will be the basis for President Obama to decide on the use of US nuclear power. Since taking office, Mr. Obama has been administering the "red button", the key to firing the Cold War nuclear weapons system.

The IBM representative said that the computer contained about 1.6 million processor chips based on the Sequoia technology platform, when operating the chips will be continuously cooled. The company estimates that the giant machine will consume five times more electricity than a household. When completed, the supercomputer will be placed in a solid construction of 3.18 hectares and strictly protected.

Roadrunner lost his throne to the arrival of the new supercomputer.

This is not the first time IBM has implemented supercomputer design projects. The company has successfully built a supercomputer called Roadrunner for the US Department of Defense. The Roadrunner is located at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico State.

As planned, supercomputers will officially operate in 2011. In addition to managing nuclear arsenal, supercomputers also support American scientists in studying human genetics, astronomical observations and analyze climate change.