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The number of Russian supercomputers is increasing thanks to a company based in Moscow and the Russian President also found that high-performance computing is important to the

The White House is determined

Argonne, the National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy, began building IBM's supercomputer into one of the most powerful supercomputers today.

That is China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer, which can perform 2.5 million billion calculations in a second, or 40% of the speed of the supercomputer Cray XT5 Jaguar (1.7 million

Two US 20-petaflop systems are scheduled to be completed in 2012. But ranked No. 1 on this year's Top500 list, is China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer.