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The 10 most expensive supercomputers on the planet
Leading this list is a Japanese supercomputer system with an investment of $ 1.2 billion.
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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.
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Roadrunner - Million dollar calculator, speed record
On Monday (June 9), IBM scientists announced the supercomputer reached a record speed of 1 million billion calculations per second (petaflop) at a price of $ 100 million…
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The US suddenly 'fired' IBM supercomputers
Five years after becoming the first system to cross the petaflop threshold (executing thousands of millions of calculations per second), Roadrunner of the Los Alamos, Ne…
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IBM's new generation supercomputer
The supercomputer, called Roadrunner, is expected to be located at Los Alamos State New Mexico State Laboratory. With a computational power of about 1 petaflop, equivale…
